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Wow ... tragic what crime can do to a man's life. Prayers for his family.
Posted on 09/12/2009 4:13:16 PM PDT by STARWISE
Christopher Kelly, a key figure in the federal corruption probe into former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, is dead.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office today confirmed that Christopher Kelly of Burr Ridge was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 10:46 a.m. The office said Kelly died of salicylate intoxication.
According to medical reference guides, salicylates are used in anti-inflammatory and pain relief medications. An autopsy is scheduled for Sunday.
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Kelly is a former confidant and top fundraiser for Blagojevich, who was accused of using his office to leverage campaign donations and benefits for himself and his family.
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Kelly’s attorney, Michael Monico, declined to comment today when reached by a Tribune reporter. Kelly, who was indicted alongside Blagojevich in April, pleaded guilty this week in a separate federal case.
On Tuesday, in a surprise move just a day before his scheduled trial, Kelly, owner of a roofing business, pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud as part of a kickback scheme to illegally obtain $8.5 million in work at O'Hare International Airport.
At the time, Kelly, 51, said he was under pressure from federal prosecutors to cooperate in their investigation of Blagojevich, but he refused.
Kelly faced a sentence of almost 5 years in prison on top of the roughly 3 years in prison he got in June for his guilty plea to tax offenses. Kelly was ordered to report to federal authorities for incarceration by Sept. 18.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsblogs.chicagotribune.com ...
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Wow ... tragic what crime can do to a man's life. Prayers for his family.
~~I can’t help thinking about the pressure he must’ve been experiencing .. and from whom .......... PING!
Suicide my patoot.
Agreed
Just the first of many to come from the Chicago political
underworld. They know too much about a high profile target.
salycilate = aspirin
Aspirin O.D.?
Too many aspirins?
It is possible. Aspirin is one type of salicyclate.
Sounds like the Chicago Way.
Sad state of affairs, isn’t it?
I wonder how many more tragedies will erupt.
Inconvenient man.
Got rid of him.
I wonder how many aspirin he was forced to eat at the point of a gun?
He knew too much.
-PJ
Sounds like a likely scenario. I hope something comes of the investigation and that this is NOT swept under the rug. There's supposed to be an autopsy tomorrow.
Really hard to force a lethal dose of salicylate.
I’m surprised that Hillary would help Blago silence his witnesses. Maybe she did it for Obama.
Dead Men Have No Tails
Those who were inside the corrupt Chicago denocratic political machine and knew things that can bring down Rahm Emmanual and Barry O’Bamm-bamm will be coming to various forms of grief.
I call this one the day Blago got arrested and w3as derided for being a corspiracy theorist and a member of the “vast right wing conspiracy” to discredit the messiah.
—PP
No, this is undoubtedly suicide by overdose....with a corpus not messy for his family to find.
He didn't rat out Blago. Blago isn't the type to hire hit men, anyhow. Remember, Blago has to keep looking over HIS shoulder for Obama's hit men.
Chicago's streets must be populated by guys walking backwards.
Leni
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