Related: US Persecuter Patrick Fitzgerald Goes Full Metal Neo-Con To Cover Up The 9-11 Attacks
FBI Case File: Heading to Chicago
Isn't he the SAME GUY that directed the Libby cover-up, 'er, prosecution?
No wonder the MSM was extolling his virtues as a "tough prosecutor."
Can't look TOO DEEPLY into Obama's seedy Chicago background, either.
As for Blago, JURIES NOW SEE the government for what is: a lying, agenda-pushing PoS.
"Blagojevich case shatters into mistrial; Jury deadlock foils 23 counts; found guilty only of lying" by Michael Tarm and Don Babwin, Associated Press | August 18, 2010
CHICAGO — A federal jury deadlocked yesterday on all but one of 24 charges against former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, including the most explosive of all — that he tried to sell an appointment to President Obama’s old Senate seat. Blagojevich was convicted on a single, less serious count of lying to federal agents.
Why not?
They lie to all of us.
Prosecutors pledged to retry the case as soon as possible....
Yeah, WASTE MORE TAXPAYER DOLLARS on an AX-GRINDING POLITICAL PROSECUTION!
Gee, SOME CHANGE from BUSH, huh?
Yup, DIDN'T RETRY LIBBY, though!
Also see: Cheney Fibbed to FBI
Obama Defends Dick Cheney
(Blog editor's mouth forms into on O)
And I'm shocked -- shocked, I tell you, that the AP web rewrite excluded what I am looking at in printed paper on the desk:
Blogojevich's attorneys had plastered Washington and Illinois with subpoenas -- including White House chief of staff Ron (sic) Emanuel and Senate majority leader Harry Reid -- but by the end of the trial none of them had testified, sparing Democrats any potentially embarrassing testimony.
Just as this MSM hatchet job did.
Wanna take a bath, readers?
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And now you have a bit of a clue as to why the trial ended the way it did.
"Illinois jury was ready to convict; 1 woman held out for Blagojevich" by Associated Press | August 19, 2010
CHICAGO — They were close. After three weeks of respectful but increasingly tense deliberations, 11 jurors were ready to convict Rod Blagojevich of what prosecutors called a “political corruption crime spree’’ that would have sent yet another former Illinois governor to prison.
Not close enough. On vote after vote, the jury kept coming up one juror short — a lone holdout who wouldn’t budge and would agree only that Blagojevich lied to the FBI.
As opposed to a lone gunmen?
Maybe someone will make a film about it.
“The person just did not see the evidence that everyone else did,’’ said juror Stephen Wlodek.
The guilty verdict on the least serious of the 24 counts against him, and mistrial on all the rest, led Blagojevich to taunt prosecutors in the courthouse lobby. More than a year after federal prosecutors accused him of crimes that would make Abraham Lincoln “roll over in his grave,’’ the disgraced politician bragged about essentially fighting them to a draw.
The morning after the verdict, the former governor emerged from his Chicago home in casual clothes, saying he was back on dad duty and was taking his youngest daughter to camp.
“We’ll have more to say later,’’ Blagojevich said.
Jurors said in interviews that further deliberations would not have mattered — a second unanimous decision on a charge of attempted extortion evaporated shortly before the verdicts were to be read.
US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald thanked the jury Tuesday for its service but refused to comment on the verdict, citing the need to prepare for Blagojevich’s second trial.....
And as I have been saying for some time:
"Congratulations Gov. Blagojevich
August 17, 2010
by Scott Creighton
I had forgotten why I had been banned at the Huffington Post…. now I remember.
I just got banned from HuffPo and my profile was [wiped-out] so that no one can read my comments.
Not because I am a republican troll. They have plenty of those there, and they let them post some of the most horrible comments I have seen.
I posted no calls for violence, no racist statements, no anti-Semitic comments, no profanity.
They banned me for pointing out what a witch-hunt this Blagojevich thing has become. They banned me because I posted links showing the connection between [Bank] of America and Blago’s demise.
They banned me because I pointed out that Madigan is probably on that list Rahm gave Blago’s people, and that Arianna had gone on TV the night before that came out and flat out claimed that Rahm hadn’t had any connection with Blago’s people. me, Dec. 16th 2008
Or maybe they banned me because of this…
I am not going back to Huffington Post. She is getting all kinds of press for her recent article “Character is Destiny” where she argues that in the end, the character of Rod Blagojevich is what set this in motion. That’s a fascinating theory coming from a “liberal journalist” who married a homosexual oil tycoon millionaire friend of the Bush family and then settled her plagiarism case out of court, when she stole another writer’s work and put in her book claiming it as her own. Is that “character” befitting the “destiny” she has received? me, Dec. 13th, 2008
I don’t know… it’s a toss-up. Ah, but I digress.
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was found guilty on only one charge that had been leveled against him, the other 23 charges were dismissed in a mistrial. The judge declared the mistrial so that the case could be tried again.. talk about your double-jeopardy; “Double jeopardy is a procedural defense that forbids a defendant from being tried twice for the same crime on the same set of facts.”
A federal jury found former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich guilty on Tuesday of one count of lying to federal agents, and the judge said he intends to declare a mistrial on the remaining counts.
… The count on which Blagojevich was found guilty included accusations that he lied to federal agents when he said he did not track campaign contributions and kept a “firewall” between political campaigns and government work. MSNBC
I guess it’s called a “mistrial” when the banks and the corrupt politicians that serve them don’t get the version of “justice” they wanted from the jury. I know this, because that is exactly what happened.
Back in December of 2008, I took up this case, investigating it as much as I could because I could smell something was terribly wrong with what they were trying to do to Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The evidence was everywhere and no one, including the left stalwarts like MSNBC and Huffington Post were willing to step up and take a stand for Blago.
They helped railroad Gov. Blagojevich just as much as Rahm Emanuel and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald did. And they did it to support the soon to be anointed President of “CHANGE”. Well, how did all that “change” work out?
Gov. Blagojevich didn’t do anything that every other revolving door politician does these days and the establishment left knows it.
What Blago did do was stand up to Bank of America and threaten to cancel all their state accounts in Illinois… and that they could NOT allow.
(Note: the original video of this has been removed by CNN so that people can’t see what happened and what started this whole thing off (unless of course you believe Arianna Huffington that is). I did find this version of the press conference that Blago gave standing with the workers at Republic Window and Door. Please download it, as I doubt it will be around for much longer)
The Bank put in a call to Rahm and that was that. The next day, arrests were made.
Think Progress reports that a Chicago reporter has said that it may have been Rahm Emanuel that “tipped off” law enforcement (IE “snitched Blago out”). And now, Obama is also going on record saying “he” personally had no contact with Blago about this issue, but he isn’t saying his staff didn’t… so far… OBAMA: “I had no contact with the governor or his office so we were not…ahh ahhh ahhh… I ..was not aware of what was happening.”
Open Secrets – Bank of America’s PAC donated $10,000 to Rahm Emanuel and $254,167 to Barack Obama. BOA is also a DNC partner
Now here is an article (from HuffPo ironically) about Blago moving to strip Bank of America of state contracts…
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich announced Monday that he is asking all Illinois government agencies to suspend business with Bank of America. Blagojevich contended that Bank Of America received a multi-billion dollar bailout from the government and should accordingly restore credit to the Republic Windows & Doors company in Chicago. HuffPo
What happened here is very simple: after the bailouts, a politician tried to make a stand and hold the banks accountable with our trillions of dollars of bailout money that was supposed to go toward easing credit and starting the lending up again (remember that lie?). So they smacked him down and made an example of him.
Now the people of the jury in the case have spoken and they to get smacked down, their conclusions rejected so that the NARRATIVE of what happened won’t go down in the history books in an accurate representation of what really happened.
I want to congratulate Gov. Blagojevich for this victory. Yes, they will hit you with the biggest penalty they can and yes they will retry the case til they get the results that make history a little easier for Rahm Emanuel and the bankers…
… but in the end, you did your job. You stood with the workers at Republic and you took a stand for what was right. As Gov. of Illinois, you were the highest legal representative of the people of that state and you did your job. Republic workers got their compensation as they deserved and as you stated in your press conference. You paid a high price. One day, one day soon I hope, the people of this country will recognize the sacrifice you made.
[for a little more background on the case check out these links...]
“You Had Better Play Ball”… Season’s Greetings from the White House To-Be and Bank of America Dec. 9th 2008
A Little Info on the “Witnesses” Named in the Indictment Against Rod Blagojevich Dec. 9th 2008
Gov. Rod Blagojevich is Being Railroaded Dec. 10th 2008
Chuck Todd, Political Director of MSNBC, “Shapes” the Gov. Blagojevich Story Dec. 10th 2008
MSNBC Hints At Targeting Blagojevich’s Wife Dec. 11th 2008
New York Times Forgets to Mention Blagojevich’s Stand With Republic Workers Dec. 11th 2008
More Disinformation from MSNBC About the Blagojevich Case Dec. 11 2008
One Blago Charge Stemmed from Costing Billionaire Sam Zell a $150 Million Dollar “Tax Scheme” Dec. 12th 2008
Is Blagojevich Disabled? It Depends of What Your Definition of “Is” Is Dec. 12th 2008
Is the Ill. State AG Looking to Pay Blagojevich to Step Aside? Dec. 15th 2008
M. Madigan, Ill. State Speaker, May Move to Impeach Blagojevich To Get His Daughter that Senate Seat Dec. 15th 2008
BREAKING: Illinois Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Motion to Declare Blagojevich Unfit to Serve Dec. 17th 2008
Obama’s Blago Report: Madigan On Rahm’s “Short List” and Blago Did NOT Try To Benefit From Deal Dec. 23rd 2008
Wait, Let me Get This Straight; Impeach Blago, But Don’t Look At the Evidence Against Him? Dec. 27th 2008
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