Posted on 08/17/2010 3:13:16 PM PDT by Justaham
A federal judge says he intends to declare a mistrial on the remaining counts in the political corruption trial of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY'-uh-vich). The jury found Blagojevich guilty of one count of lying to federal agents. There were 23 other counts against Blagojevich and four against his brother.
The jury delivered its verdict on Tuesday.
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Of course. He wants his family, friends, coworkers and everyone for miles around to stay alive.
Fitz threw the case. So’d the judge.
And now, children, gather ‘round, and we’ll hear the moral of the story. Who wants to sing the “All Heil 0bama” song? Let us bow our heads in supplication to Imam Obama.
Lying to the feds is always the catch-all charge when the prosecutors have nothing else sufficiently proved as evidence to obtain a guilty verdict.
Personally I think that such a federal offense as lying to the feds is bull crap and proves nothing more than the feds do not have a case.
Again more taxpayer money will be spent to re-try Blago when the incompetent boobs, FBI agents that did a so-called thorough investigation should be reassigned to counting paper clips or something else that fits their actual qualifications.
So another politician that should be spending years residing in the gray-bar hotel will be celebrating along with his brother.
The saying goes; a motivated prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich if they wanted to.
Some background here about lying to federal agents, for your reading pleasure.
How to Avoid Going to Jail under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 for Lying to Government Agents
By Solomon L. Wisenberg
Solomon L. Wisenberg is a partner and co-chair of the white collar criminal defense practice group of Barnes & Thornburg LLP .
http://library.findlaw.com/2004/May/11/147945.html
Its just Chicago. Nothing new here.
Tom Delay was indicted for less.
IIRC, DeLay was caught by a minor functionary’s $5K or less that DeLay never knew about anyway....like, maybe a plant got in his front door? Hmmmmmm? Yet DeLay was gonesville.
There is nothing wrong with the criminal justice system. The problem lies with the prosecution’s reluctance to present all the facts available for the jury to evaluate. IMHO much was redacted for fear of involving every Chicago politician- including our beloved president.
If the judge declares a mistrial, that means the Feds can re-file. Why was the taxpayer put through a trial in the first place if the decision of a jury means nothing. What happened to the Constitution. Sorry to ask I already know the answer. This isn’t a legal system, this is a cat and mouse game and we’re the mice.
Tom Delay was indicted for less.
DeLay’s indictment was via the State of Texas, correct?
There was a federal investigation against DeLay. After six years the charges were dismissed, yesterday.
There is still a case against DeLay in Texas.
“Again more taxpayer money will be spent to re-try Blago when the incompetent boobs, FBI agents that did a so-called thorough investigation should be reassigned to counting paper clips or something else that fits their actual qualifications.”
The only utility here is if we can get any more revelations that hurt 0bama and the Dims. At least he got one count. Perhaps the threat of a re-trial will get Blago to reveal more information. An actual retrial might mean that we will hear from other miscreants such as Rezko. Keeping this in the news close to the election is in my view money well spent.
That’s my point. It was local not the Feds and there is a hearing scheduled on Aug. 24.
I’m delighted with the verdict. As much as Blago is a blowhard, he got no money for all his blathering, he sold no seat, he was a typical Chicago politico. Meanwhile, Obama and Rom Emanuel were busy trying to do exactly what Blago was alledged to have done, wheel and deal and offer jobs to bribe others to do as they wished. Witness Sestak in PA (I think it’s PA) and Romanov in CO, both of whom were bribed with job offers to get out of their primaries in their respective states, because Obama and his henchman wanted their primary opponents to win, Bennett in CO vs. Romanov, and Arlen Specter against Sestak. So, I would only want Blago in jail if Obama and Rom Emanuel were locked up in the cells right next to him.
Meanwhile, Blago was a very clever boy. He had two sharp lawyers, Sam Adams Sr. who is white, and his son, Sam Adams Jr. who, like Obama is mixed race, half black, half white. There were three black jurors and one Asian juror, the rest were white. I’ll lay you three to one odds that the minority jurors believed Sam Adams Jr., the black defense attorney, over the white prosecutor Fitzgerald.
Also, the jury split 5 for Blago, 7 against. That’s not just one lone juror holding out. That’s almost an even split on the jury for and against. The prosecution is going to have a tough road to hoe in the next trial that they have said they will do, now that this one ended up as a mistrial. I might add that this next trial will be starting over again probably in late September or early October, right before the fall mid-term elections. The Democrats will be cryig in their soup as there is nothing like a good old Dem corruption trial taking place right before an election. Hope our Pubs use this re-trial to their advantage politically, in their Ads.
Well, even though Blago is a bit of a slimeball, I still find him amusing and entertaining, he has that kind of personality, and I can’t stand Fitzgerald because of what he did to Scooter Libby, so I’m a happy camper tonite, and now I am going to go treat myself to something tasty for dinner in celebration of the outcome of the verdict. Blago will end up in the klink for maybe a year or two at most, which is good, as he has two young girls at home. Blago should not have been tried for being a loudmouth, he should have been tried for actions and deeds he did, which he didn’t. Fitzgerald set Blago up just like he did Scooter Libby, and Fitz got the same outcome again, one alleged charge of perjury that was basically trumped up. I hate overzealous prosecutors like Fitz, and it gives me great pleasure that he has got his comeuppance. So now Fitzgerald will waste another 20-30 million dollars on a re-trial, ... why?
P.S. this is happening on my home turf, I live in a suburb of Chicago, so I know the politics of this State pretty well as I have lived in IL for most of my life.
P.S., a little tidbit I found interesting about the jury pool. They just gave out the names of the jurors for the first time (during the trial the names were not given out), and the towns they came from. This jury was primarily a suburbs jury, not a city of Chicago jury. If I heard right, only one or two actually lived in the City, the rest were all from the burbs. And they were from the north suburbs, the south and the western suburbs. I’ll have to think about this and how it factored in to the verdict.
EXACTLY right. The whole thing was fixed to protect the “big fish”. Blago is a low level scumbag surrounded by MUCH bigger scumbags. The Judge wouldn’t ALLOW Blago to call the very witnesses he needed to call for his defense. O protected one. Absolutely FIXED. I’m glad he got off. Now he needs to sing like a bird.
“Its just Chicago. Nothing new here.”
I knew this would happen. Corrupt is as corrupt does. God what has justice become?
I SO completely agree with you. I live here too. You are absolutely SPOT ON.
“Also, the jury split 5 for Blago, 7 against.”
Where’d you hear that!? I figured it was a one-man holdout. This is actually very good news!
“Also, the jury split 5 for Blago, 7 against.”
Where’d you hear that!? I figured it was a one-man holdout. This is actually very good news!”
They were talking about it on our local NBC Channel Five news hour. So, unless NBC got the numbers wrong, and I doubt they did, then it was a 5/7 split. One vote shy of an even split.
Well the media is blabbing 11 to 1.
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