chicagotribune.com - 12/9/2008
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Blagojevich responds Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at the Tribune Tower on Monday for an interview at CNN's Chicago office. ( Tribune photo by Nancy Stone / December 8, 2008)
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Blagojevich Corruption Charges
mlbtraderumors.com 12/9/2008 — Illinois govenor Rod Blagojevich was arrested on corruption charges today . Cubs-related passage:
Blagojevich and [chief of staff John] Harris conspired to demand the firing of Chicago Tribune editorial board members responsible for editorials critical of Blagojevich in exchange for ...
Thank God for corruption!
hardballtimes.com 12/9/2008 — The fun news today is that Illinois has kept its governors-in-jail streak alive . But this isn't just your average, everyday corruption story. This one has some baseball!
Blagojevich and Harris conspired to demand the firing of Chicago Tribune editorial board members responsible for ...
Blagojevich Indictment Mentions Cubs, Tribune
mouthpiecesports.com 12/9/2008 — Rod Blagojevich, noted tool, was indicted today on corruption charges , the breadth of which Attorney General Patrick Fitzgerald called “staggering.” Basically, Roddy tried to sell off Barack Obama’s recently vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder. Genius. These ...
Governor Rod Blagojevich tried to use the Cubs/Wrigley Field to get people fired
out-of-rightfield.blogspot.com 12/9/2008 — According to the federal indictment against current (and most likely former) Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich , Rod, among many other things, withheld state assistance for the Tribune Company in connection with the Cubs/Wrigley Field sale until the Tribune Company fired its editorial board. ...
Appropos of nothing
hardballtimes.com 12/11/2008 — Even if Blagojevich hadn't gotten all extorty with Sam Zell, the state-helping-the-Cubs-with-Wrigley thing would have been sunk by the Tribune's bankruptcy :
Before Gov. Blagojevich's arrest, his administration and Tribune Co. were discussing a $250 million bond deal for the purchase of ...
Cubs caught in Illinois Gov. scandal —
SmackCaster SmackBlog
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been busted big time for doing some dirty deeds, including trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat. Sounds like he might as well have put it on EBay was foolish and indiscreet as he were. The Cubs’ sale somehow is caught up in the mess. Just ...
Rod Blagojevich, American Fool —
wrigleyville23
A day after trying to bully Bank of America into a loan to a struggling entity in the middle of an economic crisis caused in large part by loans made to struggling entities, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested for a " political corruption crime spree ." And he is no criminal mastermind. ...
Cindi Canary Is Probably Exaggerating —
wrigleyville23
From the New York Times profile on Rod Blagojevich (we're leaving the Gov. off, as that's going away soon): “I almost fell over,” said Cindi Canary, executive director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform and a frequent critic of the governor. “I was speechless and sickened. In all of ...
The Two Most Powerful Men In Chicago Sports —
The 35th Street Review
Among the more interesting tidbits in today’s indictment of Gov. Rod Blagojevich (and there were many) was the governor’s ploy to use the Wrigley Field sale as a tactic to get select editors of the Chicago Tribune fired.
Now, if you live in Illinois you probably figured it was ...
Illinois Gov.’s Corruption Extends To Sale of Cubs —
SPORTSbyBROOKS
It’s been a pretty interesting day living in the state of Illinois. I woke up this morning and logged on to the CHICAGO TRIBUNE’s website to see if there was any news coming out of baseball’s Winter Meetings surrounding the Cubs and White Sox, and instead I was hit with a ...
Top Ten Corrupt Chicago Athletes —
Top Ten Chicago Sports
Yesterday, our proud Governor Rod Blagojevich (pictured above holding "Blagojevich Sucks" shirt) was arrested. Now I won't get into details as to what happened, I will let the Sun-Times explain it, but it is ANOTHER case of corrupt Illinois politics. Now you may ask, "what does this have to do ...
Profiles in Discretion: Rod Blagojevich —
Straight Flushing
You don't see political careers explode that spectacularly very often. When you've got a governor on tape saying, explicitly, "I want money" in exchange for the U.S. Senate seat he's authorized to fill, and pointing out how much leverage he has, since if they don't pay, he can always appoint ...
Illinois Governor Blagojevich, And The Total Mind-Blow —
Heavy Soul
This article is completely staggering . Staggeringly stunning. Today, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested by the FBI. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said “the breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering.” (I totally copied Fitzgerald with my adjectives. Sorry, ...
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