Posted on 07/21/2010 10:36:00 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO – Rod Blagojevich says the prosecution in his corruption trial proved that he did nothing wrong.
He spoke after his defense rested Wednesday without calling any witnesses — including the ousted Illinois governor himself.
Blagojevich says the government showed "that I never took a corrupt dollar, not a corrupt dime, not a corrupt nickel, not a corrupt penny."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
took it all in quarters, I suppose...
took it all in quarters, I suppose...
I’m pretty sure everybody is completely innocent. I’m pretty sure we can all just move along now.
I can’t wait until they frog march this creep into Marion.
No, he just conspired to do so. He's up on charges for conspiracy to commit fraud and solicitation of bribery, not for actually succeeding at either crime.
It is hard to see how the feds would want to win this, since, conviction would reflect poorly on the leadership in the executive, their boss.
Acquittal, will have the Pres__ent is the WH playing bongos like Clinton after Lewinsky.
Well, it does seem treason isn’t a crime anymore...
This scaly BigBoy toad, is an arrogantly corrupt creep even by the seedy standards of disgusting Illinois politics.
Nothing that a good honest punch in the nose couldn’t help though.
“Blagojevich: Government showed he did no wrong”
That’s misleading. I think the words you’re looking for are the government didn’t show Blago did wrong.
Beetlejuice after having his head shrunk by the shaman: “This is a good look for me!”
Colonel, USAFR
Did AP/Yahoo pull this article? Too favorable of a headline? Very odd but the link is no good now.
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