New details about Christopher Kelly emerge (Blago aide suicide)

As Christopher Kelly was being treated for a fatal overdose, the political fundraiser who was being pressured to testify against ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich confided to his girlfriend to "tell them they won."

"It's my life," Kelly told Clarissa Flores-Buhelos, according to a police report released today to the Tribune. "Tell them they won, tell them they won."

The report does not specify to whom Kelly was referring. It was one of several new details contained in the 47-page police report released by Country Club Hills, where Kelly took numerous pills before his Sept. 12 death that authorities have ruled a suicide.

Flores-Buhelos described the incident in an interview with police two days after Kelly's death. She said Kelly made the comment after becoming combative when medical personnel at Oak Forest Hospital tried to strap him down before transferring him to Stroger Hospital, according to the report.

The report sheds new light on the hours and days preceding Kelly's death, including his suicide attempt just days earlier following a federal court hearing in which he told reporters his life was over. Previously, authorities said Kelly tried to kill himself that day, Sept. 8, by taking an over-the-counter medication.

The police report states that in addition to the pills, Kelly also dragged a hose connected to his truck's tailpipe into a trailer in a commercial yard that he rented for his roofing company.

Authorities said Kelly used the same trailer a few days later, on Sept. 11, when he took numerous pills before Flores-Buhelos found him in a car parked nearby and took him to Oak Forest Hospital.

The police report also provides more details about whether Kelly took rat poison the night before he died.

Christopher Kelly spoke to cop before he died: Country Club Hills mayor

The former fundraiser for ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich spoke to a police officer before he died, Country Club Hills Mayor Dwight Welch said Sunday.

Christopher Kelly, 51, of Burr Ridge was sitting up on a gurney while being interviewed by the officer, Welch said. Based on what Kelly told the officer, police are “fairly certain” he tried to kill himself, Welch said.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office performed an autopsy but said the results are not complete.

Police found “pills” in Kelly’s SUV. Welch would not say whether they were prescription or over-the-counter medication.

Kelly told the officer that he recently had surgery on his “private parts.” Welch said police did not know what type of surgery. Welch said Kelly was hesitant and defensive.

On Sunday, Welch said Clarissa J. Flores-Buhelos, 30, of Chicago, the girlfriend who took Kelly to the hospital before he died of an apparent overdose Saturday, has “lawyered up” and is not cooperating with police.

But her attorney, Terry Gillespie angrily said Flores-Buhelos had already arranged to meet with police Monday. “Apparently the mayor was too busy giving news conferences” to check with his police department to confirm Monday’s meeting, Gillespie said.

http://www.suntimes.com/1767469,christopher-kelly-blagojevich-dead-091209.article

Christopher Kelly pleaded guilty in an illegal kickback scheme to fraudulently obtaining approximately $8.5 million in inflated contracts for projects involving Chicago O’Hare Airport and his own company, BCI Commercial Roofing, Inc. He received the kickbacks to pay for his gambling debts and other personal debts. Christopher Kelly was facing nearly eight years in prison as well as very public trial with Rod Blagojevich scheduled for next June.

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