Nashville Blagojevich indicted

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on April 2, 2009 at 11:42 pm

Federal investigators on Thursday handed out corruption charges against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and five others, including his Nashville-based banker brother, Robert. The latter Blagojevich is accused of two counts of wire fraud, each of which come with a maximum 20-year prison sentence.

From the Chicago Tribune:

“We were hoping it wouldn’t happen, but it did,” Robert Blagojevich’s attorney Michael Ettinger said. “Now my client is looking forward to being vindicated at a trial. My client has said from the beginning that he was not doing anything outside the bounds of normal fundraising.”

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Tags: corruption, governmental investigations, Illinois, Robert Blagojevich, U.S. Attorney Northern District of Illinois, U.S. Department of Justice, white-collar crime  

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