Maybe the tapes are in safe holding, hanging over new Mayor RE’s head.
It’s a tangled web ...
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2626661/posts
GQ reports: Rahm Emanuel’s “hostile” relationship with Attorney General Eric Holder
By Lynn Sweet on November 12, 2010
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http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/11/gq_reports_rahm_emanuels_hosti.html
Did Chicago mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel have it out for Attorney General Eric Holder? Or was he just trying to protect the Obama White House?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/us/20fitzgerald.html
High-Profile Trial Against an Ex-Governor Ends a Top Prosecutor’s String of Successes
New York Times, The (NY) - Friday, August 20, 2010
Author: MONICA DAVEY Emma Graves Fitzsimmons and Susan Saulny contributed reporting.
CHICAGO — Around here, Patrick J. Fitzgerald , the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and, lately, the overseer of the prosecution of former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, has been called a modern-day Eliot Ness. His name has been tossed about, without his participation, as a future mayor or governor or something. A radio host once introduced him as “the biggest Chicago guy or gal there is,” aside, maybe, from Oprah Winfrey.
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Fitzgerald ‘s big moment - The leader of the Blagojevich case won’t say it, but the trial’s outcome could change his crime-busting life
Chicago Tribune (IL) - Sunday, August 8, 2010
Author: Stacy St. Clair and Jeff Coen, Tribune reporters
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has kept a remarkably low profile during the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, largely avoiding the courtroom and the media throughout the summer and appearing only occasionally to catch a key moment or two from an overflow room where just audio can be heard.
But any attempt to distance himself from the Blagojevich carnival is probably futile.
The case is undoubtedly the apex of Fitzgerald ‘s Chicago tenure, which is, of course, saying something, given he has made a career of toppling high-ranking politicians, mobsters and terrorists. Fitzgerald , though, put his personal stamp on the Blagojevich case early by declaring that the extraordinary predawn arrest of a sitting governor was necessary to stop a “political corruption crime spree.”
A jury tapped to weigh those charges — including allegations Blagojevich tried to sell to the highest bidder a U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Barack Obama’s election as president — is set to begin its ninth day of deliberations Monday.
“This whole case is on him,” said Victoria Toensing, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration and an outspoken Fitzgerald critic. “It’s his baby, and he’s responsible for it.”
That feeling is heightened by speculation that Fitzgerald , the longest-serving U.S. attorney in Chicago history, may have stayed in his post largely to shepherd the Blagojevich case. And no matter what the jury decides, the trial’s end is almost certain to rekindle interest in the top prosecutor’s possible next move, a popular parlor game in local legal and political circles.
Many have wondered in recent years whether Fitzgerald ‘s Chicago tenure was winding down and if he would seek a higher post within the Justice Department or forge a career in private practice. Shortly after President Obama took office, there had been speculation in Chicago and Washington that Fitzgerald , 49, would be tapped to oversee the FBI when Director Robert Mueller’s term ends in September 2011.
Many believe the FBI would be a better fit for Fitzgerald — a career prosecutor who was once famously described by a friend as “Eliot Ness with a Harvard degree” — than a high-paying job at big law firm.
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