By Julie Bosman President Trump signed a full pardon on Monday for Rod R. Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois who was convicted of corruption in 2011 in a scheme to sell a ...

Nearly five years after commuting former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s federal prison sentence, President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full pardon to the disgraced former governor who was convicted ...

Rod Blagojevich, five years after commuting his 14-year sentence ... Axios first reported the news of the expected pardon on Monday afternoon. Fox News' Pat Ward and the Associated Press contributed ...

Pete Rose, banned from baseball over gambling violations, is getting a measure of posthumous redemption through a pardon for ...

President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full and unconditional pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced former governor of Illinois who was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011 ...

And can President Trump find no one with a clean record to represent Americans as ambassadors? Crime pays, it seems, in Trump's orbit — including the Jan. 6 rioters he pardoned.

Gabe Whisnant is Deputy Weekend Editor at Newsweek based in South Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily publications in North and South Carolina. As an executive editor ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday will pardon Democratic former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to a person familiar with his plans. Trump commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year ...

Rod Blagojevich, who was sent to prison on corruption charges surrounding his time in office. Signing the pardon in the Oval Office, Trump described Blagojevich as a “very fine person” and sai ...

Former Illinois governor and convicted felon Rod Blagojevich speaks to the ... Trump said on Sunday in regards to his Jan. 6 pardons. In 2011, Blagojevich was convicted on 17 counts of corruption ...