If you enjoy the content at iBankCoin, please follow us on TwitterCHICAGO (AP) — Rod Blagojevich, the ousted Illinois governor whose three-year battle against criminal charges became a spectacle, was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday, a stiff penalty for the man convicted of trying to sell President Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat to raise campaign cash or land a high-paying job.
Judge James Zagel gave Blagojevich some credit for taking responsibility for his actions — which the former governor did in an address to the court earlier in the day — but said that didn’t mitigate his crimes. Zagel also said Blagojevich did some good things for people as governor, but was more concerned about using his powers for himself.
“When it is the governor who goes bad, the fabric of Illinois is torn and disfigured and not easily repaired,” Zagel said.
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fuck zagel.if the fbi were to bug 90% of the legislators down in the state capital of illinois,they would all be doing 14 years, what he did is business as usual for the bastards.if ever there was someone to get convicted of “stupid”, rod is your man…….and that goes for city of chicago council people……..all jagoff’s