Blago Confidante Christopher Kelly's Dying Words Before Overdose: 'Tell Them They Won'
As Christopher Kelly was being treated for a fatal overdose, the political fundraiser who was being pressured to testify against ex- Gov. Rod Blagojev...
As Christopher Kelly was being treated for a fatal overdose, the political fundraiser who was being pressured to testify against ex- Gov. Rod Blagojev...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago
Political fundraiser Christopher Kelly died after taking an overdose of pain medications, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office....
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — To hear ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich tell it, his war with federal prosecutors now has a casualty. In the days since a friend...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON and SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago
COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, Ill. — The former chief fundraiser for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to commit suicide last week after pleading guilty t...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARK J. KONKOL | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago
Chris Kelly ingested rat poison and an "extraordinarily large dose of aspirin," a source told the Chicago Sun-Times....
Chicago Tribune | Jeff Coen | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago
Christopher Kelly placed a mattress in a rented trailer at a suburban lumber yard Friday night, set up photographs of his children around it, then ing...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 11.14.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Police investigating the death of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's chief fundraiser questioned his girlfriend for more than an hour Monda...
Chicago Tribune | Stacy St. Clair | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich today said prosecutors trying to pressure his friend and former fundraiser Christoper Kelly to testify against Blagojevich...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — The investigation into the death of the former chief fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich intensified on Sunday as medi...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — A former chief fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich died Saturday, just days before he was to begin serving at least ei...
Chicago Sun-Times | NATASHA KORECKI | Posted 08.01.2009 | Chicago
Longtime Blago adviser, fund-raiser and friend Christopher Kelly, who has been in the government's sights for years, may roll....
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 07.23.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's former chief fundraiser was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for hiding the use of his...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.17.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's most recent chief of staff, former chief fundraiser and another Illinois political insider pleaded not g...
AP | Posted 05.09.2009 | Chicago
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/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.03.2009 | Chicago
Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and five others were indicted Thursday on charges of scheming to auction off President Barack Obama's vacant U.S....
Crain's Chicago Business | Robert Herguth | Posted 04.06.2009 | Chicago
Christopher Kelly -- a major O'Hare International Airport contractor and former fundraiser for ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich -- has been banned from ever do...
Chicago Sun-Times | CAROL MARIN, TIM NOVAK AND CHRIS FUSCO | Posted 03.15.2009 | Chicago
Federal authorities are investigating five construction companies that collectively have gotten hundreds of millions of dollars in construction work a...
AP | Posted 03.08.2009 | Chicago
Prosecutors have turned up the heat on former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's former chief fundraiser, charging he paid $450,000 in kickbacks to get inflated c...
Chicago Sun-Times | Natasha Korecki | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago
Another card may have fallen in the governor's house of cards. Christopher Kelly - one of Gov. Blagojevich's closest advisers, fund-raisers and friend...
Chicago Tribune | John Chase | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago