Where is M when I need him. The Counts:
Count One
From in or about 2002 to the present, in Cook County, in the Northern District of Illinois, defendants did, conspire with each other and with others to devise and participate in a scheme to defraud the State of Illinois and the people of the State of Illinois of the honest services of ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH and JOHN HARRIS, in furtherance of which the mails and interstate wire communications would be used, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1341,1343, and 1346; all in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 1349.
Count Two
Beginning no later than November 2008 to the present, in Cook County, in the Northern District of Illinois, defendants ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH and JOHN HARRIS, being agents of the State of Illinois, a State government which during a one-year period, beginning January 1, 2008 and continuing to the present, received federal benefitsin excess of $10,000, corruptly solicited and demanded a thing of value, namely, the firing of certain Chicago Tribune editorial members responsible for widely-circulated editorials critical of ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH, intending to be influenced and rewarded in connection with business and transactions of the State of Illinois involving a thing of value of $5,000 or more, namely, the provision of millions of dollars in financial assistance by the State of Illinois, including through the Illinois Finance Authority, an agency of the State of Illinois, to the Tribune Company involving the Wrigley Field baseball stadium; in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 666(a)(1)(B) and 2.
Preemptive Update: I know most of the accused bad guys lately have been Elephants.
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8 comments:
M is not the only one who is anti-corruption.
Blago looks so thoroughly corrupt that this looks more like the beginning of a Batman movie than real life.
Even the name sounds Batmanish.
I meant more for M's certain relish when dealing with these types of issues. I'd never imply any SSJ contributor has anything but the highest ethical standards.
And he's weird enough looking to be a Batman antagonist.
I'm wondering if Illinois has now surpassed Louisiana as the most politically corrupt state.
Discuss....
Jefferson now out in Lousiana. I'd say they are neck and neck.
I realize we're just amateurs here in comparison to either Illinois or Louisiana, but we may have our own corruption scandal: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/10/fbi-investigating-coleman_n_149840.html
I'd forgotten about Rostenkowski (sp).
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