By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Well Prez, you’re off the hook for now. Looks like you won’t be going to the Blagojevich circus. A federal judge in Chicago on Friday refused to issue a subpoena for President Obama to testify in the trial of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the Associated Press reported. Blagojevich, who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The way fed prosecutors see it, ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich can’t endlessly blab and blab on TV and then worry about being hurt by pretrial publicity. On Tuesday, the prosecutors asked that a key document detailing evidence in their public corruption case be made public in its entirety, the Chicago Tribune…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago wants a federal judge to compel the testimony of an attorney who served as Rod Blagojevich’s general counsel while he was governor of Illinois. At issue is the attorney-client privilege involving the attorney William J. Quinlan. Blagojevich and his brother Robert face trial on public…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com They may be brothers, but their attorneys seem to be mapping out conflicting strategies. Robert Blogojevich, brother of ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, has filed a motion to keep FBI recordings from airing in their upcoming public corruption trial, the Chicago Tribune reports. Brother Rod has indicated that he has nothing to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich wants more time to prepare for his public corruption case that was set for June 3. His attorneys want the trial moved to November. The Chicago Tribune reports that his attorneys said they can’t properly prepare a defense in time “without knowing whether they have to defend…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, under federal indictment on public corruption charges, has become the Rodney Dangerfield of his time: He gets no respect. He was reminded of that Tuesday when he appeared before a crowd of 1,000 people at Northwestern University, his old alma mater, to talk about “ethics in government.”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The brother of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich isn’t happy –not at all. Brother Robert Blagojevich, who faces criminal charges himself in connection with the public corruption case against his brother, is asking a Chicago federal judge to keep private 208 phone calls he claims the FBI wrongly intercepted, according to a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The criminal case against ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich can only get more interesting. In the latest move, his lawyers have asked for the FBI interviews of then President-elect Barack Obama,his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The lawyers in a court…
