CHICAGO — Impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich plans to make a statement to the court at his newly scheduled sentencing hearing in December, ...
AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 08.27.2011
CHICAGO — Jurors who convicted Rod Blagojevich of corruption Monday said it wasn't that they disliked the former Illinois governor. They just di...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2011
CHICAGO (AP) -- Rod Blagojevich, who won two terms as Illinois governor before scandal made him a national punch line, was convicted Monday of a wide ...
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 08.14.2011
CHICAGO — This time, Robert Blagojevich is on the outside looking in – hoping for the best for his kid brother. For days, the businessman...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Prosecutors say they're working on a questionnaire for potential jurors in the retrial of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Prosecutor Reid Sc...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — A secretly made FBI tape shows that former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich weighed the possibility of naming Oprah Winfrey to the U.S. S...
AP | MICHAEL TARM and DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — At times agitated, excited or profane, Rod Blagojevich sorted through ways he could benefit personally from the U.S. Senate seat vacat...
The Blago Blog | Posted 05.25.2011
For the first time since Rod Blagojevich began his mega-media blitz in 2009, federal prosecutors have asked the trial's presiding judge to slap a muzz...
Posted 05.25.2011
On Tuesday, Rod Blagojevich's lawyers painted a pretty clear picture of what their lives have been like since the jury began deliberations in the form...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — A federal judge is warning former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to sit still and control his emotions during his corruption trial. Pr...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors and Rod Blagojevich's attorneys prepared Monday to take the stage for what promises to be a dramatic first act of ...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected the latest defense efforts to delay former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impending corruption trial ...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — A former Illinois government insider testified Thursday that then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich told him two years ago of an alleged deal under...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday set a June 3, 2010, start date for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's trial on charges of scheming to sell or t...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arraignment on federal corruption charges has been set for April 14. The federal court schedule indicates that the form...
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 01.07.2012