Posted on 12/11/2008 8:38:00 AM PST by Bokababe
An unflattering portrait depicting Illinois First Lady Patricia Blagojevich as a modern-day Lady Macbeth who plotted against her husband's perceived enemies and backed his corrupt schemes emerged in court documents connected to the governor's arrest Tuesday.
Her alleged ambitions and brashness are outlined in a 76-page federal criminal complaint: She helped her husband hatch a plan to sell President-elect Barack Obama's old U.S. Senate seat. She angled to trade her husband's power for lucrative spots on corporate boards. And she unleashed an obscenity-filled tirade suggesting Tribune Co. ownership should "just fire" Chicago Tribune editorial writers if the company wanted the state to help it unload Wrigley Field to ease its crushing debt.....
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
My guess is that she is singing like a bird right about now.
Remember they just ran with what they had in order to stop Blago from selling or taking the Senate seat himself. This has only just begun, there could well be indictments of the Missus as things unfold. As the daughter of a powerful Alderman (who hates Rod now) she’s no delicate flower herself.
My best is she’s in this stuff to her eyelashes. Maybe we’ll even see a RICO?
Get out that popcorn popper!
I just wrote to the author of the story asking if it is true that Mrs. Blago was the agent on the bone-headed Rezko/Obama real estate deal.
I understand she has a mouth like a drunken sailor. Is she serb like her husband? How do this foreigners get to come here and be in such high levels of government.
No, she is not "Serb". She is "the oldest daughter of longtime ward boss Ald. Richard Mell (33rd), bearing witness to the ways of the Chicago Machine since grade school", if you'd read the article.
"Foreigners"? WTF? Rod Blagojevich is American born, and simply a corrupt Illinois politician, period. Curious --did you slam all "the Irish" as "foreigners" when Ryan got arrested?
One look at her, or that fugly dog Michelle Obama, and it validates the old adage that Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.
Lady MacBeth:
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand"
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?
Both Blagos are American-born.
We have plenty of our own corrupt pols and don’t need to import any.
Oh, I knew that when the first day this story broke, her daddy was crying to the press what "a bad influence Rod Blagojevich was on his daughter" -- yet in fact, her daddy was the longtime politico ward boss who got Blagojevich elected.
The portrayal of her in the indictment douses any inkling that she has a great personality, so that must only mean that she's a da*n fine dancer! Might want to get her tap shoes out of storage...
Yes, but the Gov. and her Daddy had a big falling out in public a few years ago — Mr. Mell says that the Gov. “uses” people and then throws them away.....
An “interesting” family of political hacks:
Deb Mell, Blagojevich in-law, activist
December 9th, 2008
http://southernsassoncrime.com/?p=1649
Deborah L. Mell (D.) will start serving her term in the Illinois State House of Representatives in January 2009. Born July 30, 1968, Deb, as she is known, is also a candidate for the US House of Representatives. The 40 year old Ms. Mell is hoping to replace Obama buddy Rahm Emanuel in Illinois’ 5th congressional district. She announced her candidacy for Emanuel’s seat just two days after the chosen one *won* the presidential election.
The openly lesbian Mell is the daughter of long time Chicago Alderman Richard Mell and his wife Marge. She was arrested in 2004 while protesting her inability to get a same-sex marriage license with partner Christin Baker.
Deb Mell is also the sister in law of Illinois Governor Milorad “Rod” R. Blagojevich. Her sister Patricia is the Governor’s wife as well as the mother of his two children, Anne and Amy. As you know, Gov. Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff, John Harris were arrested this morning on corruption charges in Illinois.
Ms. Mell’s father, Richard ( Dick ) Mell was instrumental in Blagojevich’s run for a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives in 1992, which he won.
For Obama and the crew....it isn’t Blago that they need to worry about. They need his wife off this short list of witnesses and “singers”. I’m betting that she is telling the go-between that they have 30 days to get her off the hook or she passes everything she knows over to the feds. I’m pretty sure that the Obama has a list of all the Feds involved and looking for anything to frame them or force them to drop their efforts. I’d have the tape recorder on for 24 hours a day, and waiting for the phone call.
It will be interesting to see how BHO handles this, including if he fires all the Federal prosecutors.
And I’m guessing that Mrs. BHO might not be pure here...time will tell.
Why wouldn’t she think she could (and her opinion should) get a board seat out of the deal since Michelle got her Treehouse board seat with less experience and qualifications? Why else would the Blago’s think it would be Ok to ask Obama for these things unless that is the way Obama has worked in the past. So questions should be asked WHAT MO’s Treehouse board seat (a Walmart vendor) was payback for.
MAN, that’s a two bagger if I ever saw one. ‘Course he is no prize with that prissy hair.
re: Mrs. BHO
It’s been said that Michelle’s BFF is the younger sister of Jesse Jackson Jr.?? I think I saw that somewhere.... that would suggest that it might be hard for Michelle-O to avoid flapping her mouth behind the scenes trying to influence this thing or at least keep track of what’s going on. I’m sure she’s had some “interesting” conversations in recent weeks.
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