Most Corrupt Congressmen: Blago Lands Burris, Jackson Jr. On List
Their quest for the vacant U.S. Senate seat of President Barack Obama has landed Sen. Roland Burris and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. on a watchdog grou...
Their quest for the vacant U.S. Senate seat of President Barack Obama has landed Sen. Roland Burris and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. on a watchdog grou...
AP | Posted 07.08.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says a recently released phone conversation taped secretly by federal authorities shows his broth...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 06.28.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — U.S. Sen. Roland Burris said Thursday that he did not mislead lawmakers investigating his Senate appointment because they fa...
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago
DECATUR, Ill. — Sen. Roland Burris said Wednesday he did not tell an Illinois House impeachment committee that he promised to help then-Gov. Rod...
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago
Does anyone believe that Burris, who was panting after the Senate appointment as the capstone to his headstone, would not have delivered the check had Blagojevich not been arrested?
Huffington Post | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago
Roland Burris began Wednesday by explaining to reporters how a recording of a telephone call of him promising the brother of former Gov. Rod Blagojevi...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago
Illinois' senior Senator Dick Durbin said Wednesday he would not support his embattled colleague Roland Burris for a second term in 2010. On Tuesday ...
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago
DECATUR, Ill. — Sen. Roland Burris said Wednesday he did not tell an Illinois House impeachment committee that he promised to help then-Gov. Rod...
AP | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Roland Burris says he never participated in a pay-to-play scheme despite the release of a transcript in which he offers to "...
Marcel Pacatte | Posted 06.26.2009 | Chicago
Burris knows exactly what he is doing. All these years I thought he was decent but dim. Turns out it was an act that I, and many others in Illinois, bought.
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 06.26.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Sen. Roland Burris promised to "personally do something" for Gov. Rod Blagojevich's campaign fund while pressing the then-governor's b...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 06.26.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Sen. Roland Burris promised to "personally do something" for Rod Blagojevich's campaign fund while pressing for the then-Illinois gove...
AP | JIM SUHR | Posted 05.09.2009 | Chicago
GRANITE CITY, Ill. — Flashing his easy smile and wearing a power suit, U.S. Sen. Roland Burris signed autographs and shook hands after helping b...
The Hill | Aaron Blake and J. Taylor Rushing | Posted 05.03.2009 | Chicago
With former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) expected to be indicted Thursday by the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago, the man he controversially ap...
ProPublica | Ben Protess | Posted 04.28.2009 | Chicago
Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) claims he has proof he never made an inconsistent statement about his appointment to the Senate, only he can't show it to yo...
Associated Press | Posted 04.11.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Efforts to remove Roland Burris from the U.S. Senate hit yet another roadblock Wednesday in the Illinois Legislature. A House com...
Chicago Sun-Times | DAVE MCKINNEY AND CHRIS FUSCO | Posted 04.06.2009 | Chicago
On the same December day then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich named Roland Burris to fill President Obama's U.S. Senate vacancy, Burris' right-hand political man...
Progress Illinois | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago
If the General Assembly or the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee isn't prepared to unseat Sen. Roland Burris, labor lawyer and 5th Congressional District c...
AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Pat Quinn is reviewing how the son of embattled U.S. Sen. Roland Burris got a state job as a housing-agency lawyer unde...
AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Pat Quinn is reviewing how the son of embattled U.S. Sen. Roland Burris got a state job as a housing-agency lawyer unde...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Despite the furor surrounding Sen. Roland Burris, experts say Illinois is unlikely to suffer much from having a senator who'...
ProPublica | Ben Protess | Posted 03.24.2009 | Chicago
Roland Burris has blamed state lawmakers for his shifting accounts of how he became a Senator. The lawmakers, he said, failed to elicit the full story...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 03.21.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Should he resign? Can he be forced out? Will he face criminal charges? Illinoisans who thought they had put one big mess behind them ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
By admitting that he tried, without success, to raise money for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich prior to Blagojevich appointing him to the U.S. Senate, Se...
AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — U.S. Sen. Roland Burris now acknowledges attempting to raise money for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich _ an explosive twist in h...
Crain's Chicago Business | Paul Merrion | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago