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Patricia Mell "Patti" Blagojevich (born April 9, 1965), née Mell, is the former First Lady of Illinois and wife of Rod Blagojevich, the former Governor of Illinois, who was impeached and removed from office. She served as First Lady of Illinois from January 2003 to January 2009.
Rod R. Blagojevich (/ b l ə ˈ ɡ ɔɪ. ə v ɪ ... [153] [154] [155] His wife Patti joined him in attracting press attention to his cause and criticism of the ...
Blagojevich sought the following in exchange for an appointment: [32] A substantial salary for himself at either a non-profit foundation or an organization affiliated with labor unions. Placing his wife on paid corporate boards where he speculated she might garner as much as $150,000 a year. Promises of campaign funds—including cash up front.
He is now expected to issue a full pardon. Axios first reported on Trump's plans to pardon Blagojevich, who was also cast as a contestant on “The Celebrity Apprentice” in 2010.
Blagojevich entered prison in 2012 after being sentenced to 14 years. He served eight years. Trump commuted Blagojevich's prison sentence before leaving office in 2020. The former governor, who ...
On January 14, 2009, in one of her first votes in the Illinois House of Representatives, Mell cast the lone vote opposed to impeaching her brother-in-law, then-Governor Rod Blagojevich. [8] This was the second time the House had voted to impeach Blagojevich, and the tally was 117–1.
The wrong way to use your home equity line of credit: purchasing $1,300 worth of ties, as the current court case of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and his wife, Patti, recently revealed.
Madigan was one of many Illinois politicians with strained relationships with now-convicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. (See Rod Blagojevich controversies.) Her father Michael Madigan, Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives previously had a feud with Blagojevich, as highlighted by TIME magazine. [4]