LOL. That alibi just might get him off the hook, at least with his own constituency!!
Snob-ama gave toasts to the guest of honor and the Lt. Governor made welcome remarks on behalf of the great (sic) state of Illinois, for a billionaire guest from overseas who just happened to be a close buddy of Saddam’s regime, laundering money for them..... yeah, I’m sure this sort of thing happened so often for Snob-ama (let’s remember he was not famous in those days, he was just a junior IL state legislator running for US Senate)...... this must have been one of the biggest nights of his life to date...... almost as exciting as meeting with a Weatherman terrorist to plan his first political campaign.
Maybe he could say that he was so sh!tfaced that he doesn’t remember anything about that night.
Or that he was outside smoking cigarettes the whole night so he never saw anyone.