By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s nice to get a courtesy call from time to time. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that’s just what Rahm Emanuel got from Chicago’s U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald the morning that Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested in Dec. 9, 2008. Emanuel had been selected as President-elect Obama’s chief of staff. Sun-Times…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After presenting what may have been too complex of a case for the jury to digest the first time around, prosecutors in Rod Blagojevich’s corruption case moved Wednesday to drop three counts for the upcoming retrial, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The number of counts will now drop from 23 to 20….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We’re starting to enter the Rod Blagojevich Zone when the motions start flowing in, when the news heats up as the second trial approaches for the former Illinois government. The latest: Blagojevich’s attorneys on Monday asked a federal judge in Chicago to bar all FBI wiretapped conversations in trial, saying they…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com He’s back. Ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich — a man who never saw a microphone he didn’t like — has filed a pretrial motion seeking what he says is missing evidence including records of a phone call between Blagojevich aide John Harris and then White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some of his constituents have called him a nut, so perhaps the latest act of federal defendant Rod Blagojevich makes sense…or at least some cents. Blagojevich joins Snooki, comic Lewis Black, and “Keyboard Cat” as a pitchman in the Wonderful Pistachios’s “Get Crackin’” ad campaign, the Chicago Reader reports. Meanwhile, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The father and son legal team that represented chatty ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich have asked a judge to release them as the lawyers in the case, the Associated Press reports. A hearing is set for Friday in downtown Chicago in preparation for the retrial for the for Blagojevich, who was convicted…
Ex-Gov on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Perhaps one of the more interesting asterisks surrounding the decision Thursday by prosecutors to drop charges against Robert Blagojevich was that his brother Rod, the very chatty, seldom-at-a-loss for words ex-governor, had not called to congratulate him hours after the announcement, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. “When…
