Rod Blagojevich, the embattled former Democratic governor of Illinois, was found guilty on Monday of 17 charges, among them trying to sell President O...
Lonna Saunders | Posted 08.14.2011
I'm still scratching my head over the retrial of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich now that it's over as we all await the jury's verdict on some 20 counts.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.03.2011
Anyone who's followed the latter-day activities of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich knows that his public appearances are a festival of utter rand...
AP | MICHAEL TARM and KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 07.27.2011
CHICAGO — Rod Blagojevich, testifying Friday for a second day, switched his focus from a virtual monologue about his wholesome youth to describi...
AP | MICHAEL TARM and KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 06.20.2011
CHICAGO — Rod Blagojevich's second corruption trial got under way Wednesday with little hoopla, as potential jurors quietly began filling out qu...
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — While many who heard Rod Blagojevich's wiretapped phone conversations may have expected a tidy result in the former Illinois governor'...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Jurors deciding if former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to sell President Barack Obama's old Senate seat were out of sight Thurs...
AP | DON BABWIN and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Two portraits of Illinois' disgraced former governor emerged Tuesday from his corruption trial: An insecure bumbler who talked too muc...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Potential jurors waiting to be questioned in Rod Blagojevich's case discussed the trial's news coverage with each other last week, apparently flouting...
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — After more than a week of silence, jurors in the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich threw the courtroom into confusion We...
Posted 05.25.2011
The jury in the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial ended its tenth day of deliberations Tuesday--and don't appear to be any closer to a verdict. As repo...
Huffington Post | Janan Hanna | Posted 05.25.2011
Much like a house of worship, a federal courtroom is steeped in traditional rules of decorum; chief among them an unremitting deference to the judge. ...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — An angry Rod Blagojevich is heard ripping into Barack Obama on FBI tapes played Wednesday at his corruption trial, calling the newly e...
Huffington Post | Janan Hanna | Posted 05.25.2011
A prosecution witness painted a portrait of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich as someone who rarely went to the office, was oftentimes hard to reach and who...
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO -- Rod Blagojevich, a man who knows a thing or two about hair, says he loves his wife's new 'do. The former Illinois governor, on trial for c...
AP | MICHAEL TARM and DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — A former top aide to Rod Blagojevich testified Monday that the former governor planned to hold up a $2 million grant to a school in th...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Prosecutors urged a federal judge Monday to turn down ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's request to delay his corruption trial, sa...
Posted 08.27.2011