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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 tʃ / blə-GOY-ə-vitch; born December 10, 1956), often referred to by his nickname "Blago", [2] [3] is an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. He was impeached, removed from office, convicted, and incarcerated for eight years on federal charges of ...
The following day, a story unfolded involving Burris' son who obtained a $75,000 job under Rod Blagojevich on September 10 as a senior counsel for the state's housing authority — about six weeks after the Internal Revenue Service placed a $34,163 tax lien on Burris II and three weeks after a mortgage company filed a foreclosure suit on 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.
CHICAGO – Rod Blagojevich used to joke that “he barely knew where the law library was” as he earned his law degree from Pepperdine University amid surfing the Pacific Ocean and mingling with ...
Rod Blagojevich, the ex-governor and ex-con who often dusted off ancient and sometimes puzzling quotations to emphasize his positions, found himself at the other end Thursday when a federal judge ...
A number of controversies related to Rod Blagojevich, formerly the Governor of Illinois, were covered in the press during and after his administration. [1] In addition to a reputation for secrecy that was noted by the Associated Press, [2] Blagojevich was the subject of political, legal, and personal controversies similar to those of his predecessor, Republican Governor George Ryan.
He was elected lieutenant governor in 2002 and served under governor Rod Blagojevich, and as of 2024 he is the most recent male to serve as Illinois's Lieutenant Governor. After Blagojevich was impeached and removed from office in 2009, Quinn assumed the governorship.