Posted on 06/09/2010 10:33:17 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
Ousted Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich saw his one-time best friend take the stand and air details of how they and others schemed to use the governor's political heft as a cash cow.
Blagojevich, 53, is on trial facing 24 charges of corruption, racketeering, bribery and fraud stemming from his efforts in the fall of 2008 to trade President Barack Obama's vacant US Senate seat for campaign cash or a new job.
On the second day of the trial, jurors heard from Lon Monk, one of Blagojevich's closest friends and a former law school associate.
Monk testified that four people in Blagojevich's inner circle, including the governor, gave one another code names. They were 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Blagojevich, Monk, Chris Kelly and Tony Rezko met in secret to talk about how to use Blagojevich's control over the state of Illinois to personally pocket cash, he said.
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Blago is TOAST...
He should have taken the deal, and turned on Obama and Rezko.
Unless certain promises have already been recieved from the White House.
“The flamboyant Blagojevich appeared furious in court, staring down Monk as he walked in.”
There is only 'one' Number 1, and it sure was not and is not Blago... and they thought they were speaking secretly... Who ever got left out sure made sure they were recorded.
Interesting. We have the words; Chicago, Illinois, bribery, corruption, Blago, racketeering, fraud, secret, cash, “shake down”, wiretap, FBI, indicted.
And yet, I still feel there is an important word that the AP has omitted from the story.
Hmmmm. What can it be?
>> They were 1, 2, 3 and 4.
To think they could have used four letters.
That is one helluva code there guys. I bet they had to break out the Cray supercomputers to crack that puppy!
Blago is a piece of work...he coulda been a contender.
These crooked pols remind me of the frog in a cool pot. Turn up the heat and the frog boils. They have bent the rules so much and so often that they have no idea where the line is.
"That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage!"
“...1, 2, 3 and 4.”
Wow, it’s like a Robert Ludlum thriller! I’m already having trouble keeping up.
January 20th 2013, on his last day in office Obozo will be pardoning this POS, just remember that
I want to hear the tape when Rezco gives Michelle Obama the 350 thousand dollar job at the Hospital
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