Update at 9:53 a.m. ET: Here’s the formal complaint [.pdf] and news release that we received from the Justice Department.

Update at 9:47 a.m. ET: USA TODAY’s Judy Keen has confirmed with prosecutors that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested this morning on federal corruption charges.

The U.S. attorney’s office says the Democratic governor and his chief of staff, John Harris, are accused of soliciting bribes and committing wire fraud.

“The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering,” U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald says. “They allege that Blagojevich put a ‘for sale’ sign on the naming of a United States Senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target; and corruptly used his office in an effort to trample editorial voices of criticism. The citizens of Illinois deserve public officials who act solely in the public’s interest, without putting a price tag on government appointments, contracts and decisions,” he adds.

More to come, no doubt.




  1. Mr Diesel says:

    #98 MM – What’s your point?

    That you have too much free time to do searches and post this crap or that you show yourself to be one-sided like always.

    Of course we know Reps are scum, as are Dems.

    Nothing to see here, move along.

  2. Mister Mustard says:

    #99 – Mr. Deisel

    >>MM – What’s your point?
    >>That you have too much free time to do searches and
    >>post this crap

    Mr. Deisel, if you knew how few seconds it took me to “do searches and post [that] crap”, it would make your head spin. No everyone is as much a luddite as you.

    And once you get to the “reading” part of your GED prep, you will realize that my point was replying to Big Boy’s comment that “That’s is so funny, if he were a republican, you’d be foaming at the mouth making all sort of vile condemnations…“, pointing out that scandals involving Repugs that go virtually without comment, certainly no “foaming at the mouth”, are so common, so everyday, so boring, that they merit little, if any, attention. Just another day on the right wing. It would be like mentioning that a starving hobo stole a loaf of bread (except the hobo does it for a reason; the Repugs are just assholes).

    Got it now?

  3. Mr Diesel says:

    #100 MM

    Got it

    Republicans are assholes.

    Wow!

    That must mean Democrats are really bad people.

    Now, where did I put my McGuffey reader……

  4. Mister Mustard says:

    #101 – Mr Deisel

    McGuffey reader? Ohhh nooo! I thought you just hated Democrats and homos. You mean you hate Jews too?

    So much anger. So much hatred. Time for you to get out the Astroglide, it seems…

  5. Mr Diesel says:

    #102 MM –

    Again with the AG……..

    I only truly hated one person in my life and I’m over that one after 30 years.

    The rest I tolerate just like Hawking tolerates ants.

  6. Mister Mustard says:

    #103 – ‘dro

    STFU.

  7. Montanaguy says:

    It’s the Chicago way…anybody really surprised.?..the political birthplace of the Obamination… you know, the guy who ‘got’ himself an unopposed senate seat.

  8. bobbo says:

    I wonder how much of this really (I mean “really”)is a legacy of Capone Liquor Running?==ie, the really pernicious effect of making drugs people want illegal.

    Many long lasting negative effects of trying to control what other people do.

    War on Drugs is also a war on common sense. The first one has been losing a long time, while the second has been winning.

  9. soundwash says:

    ::sigh::

    -s


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