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U.S. Marshals photo of Blagojevich on the day of his arrest 'Governor Arrested for Bribery' ... Blagojevich was released from prison that day, and flew home to ...
On February 18, 2020, President Donald Trump commuted Rod Blagojevich's prison sentence. Blagojevich was released from prison that day, having served about eight years of his 14-year sentence. [176] [177] [178]
In May 2008, Governor Rod Blagojevich proposed to shut down the Pontiac facility, with a phase-out plan to take place from January through February 2009. The inmate population would be transferred to the Thomson facility, a newly built maximum security prison, which is also equipped to house segregated inmates. Illinois has since sold Thomson ...
President Trump went from berating former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for his lack of Harry Potter knowledge to commuting his prison sentence.In 2011, Blagojevich was convicted of wire fraud ...
President Trump has again broached the idea of freeing former Illinois governor and one-time "Celebrity Apprentice" contestant Rod Blagojevich from a Colorado federal prison, where he is in his ...
Blagojevich was convicted of 17 counts at trial in June 2011 and served about eight years of his 14-year sentence before the commutation from Trump in early 2020, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rod Blagojevich: 40892-424: Commuted by president Trump on February 18, 2020. [27] Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009; convicted in 2011 of wire fraud, extortion and bribery for attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by then President Barack Obama in return for money or an appointment to a high-level federal government position ...
"From beginning to end this was persecution masquerading as prosecution," a defiant Blagojevich said to a gathering of reporters. Rod Blagojevich says he's a 'freed political prisoner' after Trump ...