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Lawyer: Ill. governor wiretaps illegally obtained
AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/18/08 | Christopher Wills - ap

Posted on 12/18/2008 12:56:53 PM PST by NormsRevenge

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A lawyer for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told state lawmakers Thursday that the federal wiretaps at the heart of the pay-to-play allegations against his client were illegally obtained, and therefore should be kept out of any impeachment proceedings. The wiretaps are crucial to the federal charges filed against Blagojevich last week. Prosecutors say they caught the Democratic governor discussing efforts to auction off Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat and pressure a hospital executive for campaign donations.

Genson told the impeachment committee that it shouldn't consider any material from the wiretaps, saying the evidence was "illegally obtained."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blagojevich; illegally; lawyer; obtained; wiretaps
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To: NormsRevenge
What else would you expect a shyster to say!!! They need some point to argue..
61 posted on 12/18/2008 2:40:36 PM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Wat?


62 posted on 12/18/2008 2:42:11 PM PST by StAnDeliver (You might want to read that again -- "is *not* inadmissible", ibid.)
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To: StAnDeliver

It means that Fitz *can* try him in federal court but no one can in a state court so therefore any ‘impeachmeant’ on these grounds is hard if not impossible.


63 posted on 12/18/2008 2:58:59 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Tarpon

Exactly. What else is Blago’s lawyer going to say?

He has to either get evidence thrown out or sets up a squeal deal for Blago.

Those are his choices.


64 posted on 12/18/2008 3:06:11 PM PST by Carling (After the post-election GOP attacks against Gov. Palin, I am sad to say I am leaving the party..)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
A judge must rule on the motion

Wonder how much that will cost him?

65 posted on 12/18/2008 3:09:46 PM PST by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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To: PA-RIVER
Try this:

Fitz was and remains 100% legit and 100% by-the-book on this one. Wiretaps are pretty specific; he had to know and clearly state what it was that he was going after when he sought the go-ahead. Permission granted.

Meanwhile, some rear-echelon pencil pusher typist in an office somewhere gets paid a “visit.” A transcription error here; a “t” not crossed, an “i” not dotted there; a date, name or location transposed—simple clerical errors but enough to be a case-twisting “technicality” IF needed (wink and nudge).

Fitz baits and sets his trap. The rat he's after waltzes in just as expected, but he has brought other rats along with him. Seeing the windfall for what it is, Fitz does not spring the trap; he lets the rats eat the cheese and leave.

Fitz gets some helpers and more traps figuring he'll get all the rats next time. He sets and baits the traps, and ducks around the corner. When he looks around the corner he sees not the rat(s) he expected but a big FAT SKUNK about to take the bait—NOT the rat, a skunk and it's a BIG one.

This is where someone makes a racket to alert and drive off the skunk before he ends up in the trap. No one wants to deal with extricating a skunk from a trap and all that comes with it.

To the point, Fitz either caught or was about to catch someone much larger than he was after. The tap was abruptly pulled, the investigation brought to a screeching halt, and here we are.

Any goings on in court are distractions, diversions, and insurance for whatever/whomever it was that Fitz almost had—and it was NOT Blago.

66 posted on 12/18/2008 3:22:53 PM PST by shoutingandpointing
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To: shoutingandpointing
a big FAT SKUNK

Interesting monochromatic ethnic analogy.

67 posted on 12/18/2008 3:25:18 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (A couple of pints and a package of crisps....ahhh. Life's good.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Yikes. Did not see that one.

Skunks have always been a problem for me: I never know if it’s white on black or black on white. I mean, the experts tell us one thing, but how can one ever know for sure?


68 posted on 12/18/2008 3:34:25 PM PST by shoutingandpointing
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To: Dog
"... Wouldn’t that be funny...case tossed because they spelled his name wrong....stranger things have happened."

If Blago gets away with a surname misspelling on the wiretap warrant, I am changing my name to:

Tuco Benedito Pacifico Jose Juan Maria Ramirez von Adolph BobHope Cadnapaphornchai Dajcovo Earl Freiderich Gerald Hubert Irvin Jack-Benny Kenneth Lloyd Magic-Johnson NASCAR Oliver Pravit Quincy-Adams Rojanaphruk Skyhook Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yom-Kippur Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffwelchevoralternwarengewissenschaftschafe rswessenschafewarenwohlgepflegeundsorgfaltigkeitbeschutzenvonangreifeudurch ihrraubgierigfeindewelchevoralternzwolftausendjahresvorandieerscheinenersch einenvanderersteerdemenschderraumschiffgebrauchlichtalsseinursprungvonkraft gestartseinlangefahrthinzwischensternaitigraumaufdersuchenachdiesternwelche gehabtbewohnbarplanetenkreisedrehensichundwohinderneurassevonverstandigmens chlichkeitkonntefortpflanzenundsicherfeuenanlebenslanglichfreudeundruhemitn icheinfurchtvorangreifenvonandererintelligentgeschopfsvonhinzwischenternart Zeus igraum Hubert Blaine Wolfe Apu Nahasapeemapetilon Antidisestablishmentarianism von Vogelsangfleugelhorn Frankenstein (nee' FRONKensteen) Gomez Hernandezwitz von Superfly the Third of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.

69 posted on 12/18/2008 3:43:46 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: NormsRevenge


70 posted on 12/18/2008 3:49:42 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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To: NormsRevenge

Okay, Dems, for years you have beat us about the head and neck with Nixon.

Now your guy is proven to be far more corrupt, venal and ruthless, and he wasn’t previously inoculated by a sex scandal.

So it’s our turn to talk about the Culture of Corruption. Soon, counting Spitzer, you’ll have had two governors in as many years run out of town for severe moral lapses.


71 posted on 12/18/2008 3:52:21 PM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast ([In the primaries, vote "FOR". In the general, vote "AGAINST". ...See? Easy.])
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To: shoutingandpointing
I never know if it’s white on black or black on whit

Hee hee....you just keep digging yourself in deeper and deeper. I'm laffin me arse off.

72 posted on 12/18/2008 4:29:42 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (A couple of pints and a package of crisps....ahhh. Life's good.)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Interesting.

So the Courts are co-opted in Illinois as well? hmmm.

The Land of Lincoln should be proud. They really look after their own, it seems, if true.


73 posted on 12/18/2008 4:32:30 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: VideoDoctor

Your cynicism is merited but this is not standard Chicago corruption. Do you know of ANY sitting governor who was lead out of his house in handcuffs? Not just in Illinois but in the entire country? Civil war shenanigans don’t count I mean criminal charges.

This is killing our beloved Rats and they have no good way out. If Blow J stays it will inviserate them and, if he goes, they get Murphy whom they hate because he is an idealist not subject to their normal methods of corruption.


74 posted on 12/18/2008 5:50:35 PM PST by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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To: catchem

No, we insist our courrupt pols have a veil of respectibility.


75 posted on 12/18/2008 5:54:44 PM PST by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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To: NormsRevenge

Actually the courts are much better than they have been after another series of wiretaps and other electronic surveilance sent scores of judges, cops, sheriff deputies, court personnel and lawyers to jail. Operation Greylord put a big crimp in the buying and selling of justice. Operation Gambit involved bugging the table that Pat Marcy and John D’Arco, the powers in the First Ward (the Outfit’s guys) sat at to plan the corruption necessary for the Outfit to continue to loot the Region.

This destroyed the power of the First Ward from which the city had been ruled since the days of Hinky Dink, Bathhouse John and the Grey Wolves.


76 posted on 12/18/2008 6:49:46 PM PST by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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To: arrogantsob
Geez! And now there is a power struggle over who owns which turf. The crime rate has gone up: more guns, shooting etc. No one know who they can trust! WHo's wearing a wire or has their phone tapped/

All of this chaos because a scores of judges, cops, sheriff deputies, court personnel and lawyers were sent to jail.

What's a crook to do?

;~)

77 posted on 12/18/2008 7:50:40 PM PST by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Okay. Now we know the tapes of the phone calls are devastating.
That’s the only message you can take away from a lawyer looking for loopholes.
If the evidence will kill you, kill the evidence.


78 posted on 12/18/2008 7:57:32 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Pilsner
The Illinois legislature decides what is impeachable, and upon conviction the political death sentance is imposed -- the removed official cannot hold another public office in the state

Well, at least Blagojevich can run for Senator in New York.

79 posted on 12/18/2008 11:39:02 PM PST by piasa
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To: NormsRevenge

it is insane if true.


80 posted on 12/19/2008 4:49:11 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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