USA Today reports that there's "an interesting line in the letter sent Monday by Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich" announci...
CBS 2 | Posted 01.24.2009 | Chicago
In a dramatic development in the ongoing impeachment proceedings, lawyers for Gov. Rod Blagojevich want two key aides to President-elect Barack Obama ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Natasha Korecki | Posted 01.24.2009 | Chicago
Just after accepting the top post with Obama, Rahm Emanuel discussed with Blagojevich the possibility of keeping his congressional seat "warm" for him...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics
Two Democratic officials tell CNN that the "long-awaited report about aides to President-elect Barack Obama alleged contact with the office of embattl...
The Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics
UPDATE 12/23 4:30 PM: President-elect Obama's internal report on Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been released. Read the full text here. UPDATE 12/23: The ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Natasha Korecki | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago
President-elect Barack Obama's incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had a deeper involvement in pressing for a U.S. Senate seat appointment than previ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago
Rahm Emanuel's role in attempting to influence Gov. Blagojevich's choice of a U.S. Senate replacement for President-elect Barack Obama could impact th...
Chicago Sun-Times | Natasha Korecki and Fran Spielman | Posted 01.17.2009 | Chicago
President-elect Barack Obama's incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, was pushing for Obama's successor just days after the Nov. 4 election, sources t...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics
It's been amusing watching the media try to turn a scandal affecting the governor of Illinois into a scandal affecting the president-elect. Every detail was milked for maximum ominousness: a recent handshake between Obama and Blagojevich, a list of favored replacement candidates delivered by Rahm Emanuel, Rahm's "beet-red" face, David Axelrod's work for Blago in the 90s. All inflated to fill a sparse news cycle. But wouldn't it have been weird if Obama hadn't shaken Blago's hand, and weirder still if he'd shown no interest in who his successor would be? Trying to turn any of this into a suspicion of pay-to-play carries about as much weight as the Obama citizenship case. Sorry, guys, but Blagojevich said it all: the Obama people were "not willing to give me anything except appreciation."
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 01.12.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama is refusing to answer any questions about the internal review he has ordered into Illinois Gov. Rod Bl...
AP | NEDRA PICKLER and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — People who have been briefed on the Illinois governor corruption investigation say Barack Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is not ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman and Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 01.11.2009 | Chicago
President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, refused to take questions from reporters this morning about whether he was the Obama "adv...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
Republicans are already attempting to tie the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to President-elect Barack Obama. But local reports suggest that ...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics