US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald To Receive Honorary Degree

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is scheduled to give the midyear commencement address at Bradley University in central Illinois.

The university in Peoria will award Fitzgerald an honorary doctorate during Saturday's ceremony.

It's not clear whether he'll discuss the recent federal corruption charges filed against Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. If he doesn't, he'll still have plenty of other material from which to draw.

His investigation of the disclosure of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame led to the conviction of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

He also won the conviction of the previous Illinois governor, Republican George Ryan, now in prison for racketeering.

Comments

[roch20]

This man (Fitzgerald) is garbage!!!

[Cambridge9]

As an 'across party lines' gesture I nominate Fitzgerald to stay on in the new administration attorney's office. I hope I'm not wrong - but my thought is that he a straight shooter.

[getoffmedz]

"'across party lines' " - LMAO

He declined to go after Cheney.

A tool.

[Omidal]

I could not agree more, but you got to understand that it is not so easy to go higher up the chain.
After all, Nixon did not go to prison.

[naschkatze]

You've bought the spin hook, line and sinker, that's all.

[gevan]

Not a "B.S." degree?

[thepoliticalcat]

You're just miserable that he got your brother and your in-laws.