WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors in the Justice Department section that handles public corruption cases have been told the unit ...

Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted on 18 corruption charges, including an effort to sell Barack Obama's senate seat after he was elected in 2008. So now we have one convicted felon pardoning another ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich helps correct an injustice and is a proper use of the president’s pardon power. Blagojevich was a rare Illinois ...

Mike Madigan wasn't a convicted felon is now. So it's absolutely win ... has met again faces really his ruin. Former Governor Rod Blagojevich this week was pardoned. Now they were both Democrats ...

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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.

Rod Blagojevich, through a full and unconditional pardon. Like Blagojevich once did, Madigan now faces significant prison time. The most serious counts against him carry a maximum of 20 years in ...

CHICAGO — Perhaps the most telling moment of the news conference Rod Blagojevich held ... a security clearance and the Blagojevich pardon, wiping away his felony convictions, could make it ...

I looked Rod Blagojevich straight in the eye and asked a question that had been on my mind for the past few years. “Do you think Trump will pardon you?" I asked. “Yes,” he replied without ...