In August 2010, he was convicted of 24 federal charges, and over a year later, he was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. Illinois State Senator (1951-1956), Chicago Alderman (1970-1993) Fred Roti was a longtime politician who had served as a State Senator and later as an Alderman for 23 years.
He was indicted by a federal grand jury in April 2009. “Governor Blagojevich and defendant Jonathan - John Harris, his chief of staff, schemed to send a message to the Chicago Tribune that if the Tribune Company wanted to sell its ballfield, Wrigley Field, in order to complete a business venture, the price of doing so was to fire certain editors, including one editor by name.”īlago was impeached by the Illinois legislature in January 2009, the first impeachment in Illinois government history. Senate seat after Barack Obama was elected president.Īccording to the New York Times transcript of the Justice Department briefing on the investigation, examples of Blago’s corruption included asking for a $50,000 personal contribution from the CEO of a children’s hospital in exchange for the hospital funding, or offering up Obama’s Senate seat to the “highest bidder for campaign contributions.” Blago also tried to extort the Chicago Tribune newspaper after unflattering editorials had been written there about him. The complaint alleged that the governor was involved in several “pay to play” schemes, including corrupt dealings in filling the vacant U.S. In the governor’s race, he defeated Republican Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan by running on a platform of “ending business as usual,” according to the New York Times.īlago was reelected in 2006 and then in 2008, he was arrested by federal agents and charged with corruption. In 2002, Blagojevich was elected as the 40th Governor of Illinois, following a six-year stint serving as the Illinois’ 5th district representative in the House of Representatives in Congress. Illinois’ only governor to be impeached and removed from office was back at the Dirksen federal courthouse in downtown Chicago on Monday, but this time it was on his own volition rather than as a defendant in criminal proceedings that resulted in his conviction on charges of corruption, including attempted extortion and conspiracy to commit br.
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