Who knew this was coming? Blagojevich did something wrong?
It is rather impressive that the U.S. Attorney's office took quite some time to put together is light, 75 page indictment against Blago.
A rule of thumb: normally, when the Feds indict, you're cooked. Now it's only a matter of sentencing guidelines as to how much time/supervised release he'll do. There's no charge bargaining now, as the indictment was issued.
I wonder what effect his staunch proclamation of innocence in front of the IL House had on this indictment; one would think that his lawyers did everything they could to get him to resign as a trade to avoid federal charges, but when the client is stubborn as a mule, then this is what happens.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/02/illinois.blagojevich/index.html
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