Posted on 09/13/2009 5:25:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Police are investigating the death of the former chief fundraiser for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich as a "death-suicide," an Illinois mayor said Sunday.
Christopher Kelly, 51, was former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's chief fundraiser.
Financier Christopher Kelly told police shortly before he died Saturday that he took an "overdose of drugs," said Dwight Welch, mayor of Country Club Hills, Illinois.
Country Club Hills police found several drugs in Kelly's black 2007 Cadillac Escalade, but they were not sure yet whether they were prescribed, Welch said. Country Club Hills is about 27 miles south of Chicago.
Kelly had recently undergone surgery and was taking drugs following the operation, Welch said. Welch said he did not know which drugs Kelly was taking.
Kelly, 51, of Burr Ridge, Illinois, was pronounced dead at Stroger hospital in Cook County at 10:46 a.m. Saturday, hospital spokesman Marcel Bright told CNN.
Autopsy results were expected Sunday afternoon, Welch said. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office did not comment on the results, but said that a ruling on Kelly's death was "pending further studies."
Don't Miss Key Blagojevich player is dead, ex-governor says Burris won't seek Senate seat in 2010 Toxicology results won't be available for "some time," Welch said.
Blagojevich blamed the government for Kelly's death.
"I don't know any more than you know, except that a friend of mine took his life because he refused to submit to the pressure by the government to lie about me," Blagojevich told CNN. "And to think that it comes to something like that begs a lot of questions."
Blagojevich said his statement that Kelly "took his life" was based on what he had read in news reports.
Earlier this year, Blagojevich, who was impeached and removed fro
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Must have been a helluva hangover!
Cool.
Did they find him in Chicago’s Ft Marcie park?
Wouldn’t you think the FBI would take notice of the possibility that a prime witness in a Federal case had a “questionable” death? Will the FBI work with CCH PD to process the scene, the vehicle, and review the tox screen?
Who was the “gray-haired, white male friend” who showed up?
Is there any better example of Chicago style politics at its best?
What the hell is a “death-suicide”?
I was wondering that myself. Anyone have an explanation?
Maybe they told him the story of how Roman traitors killed themselves to save their families while sharing a cigar with him.
My sister in law lives in Burr Ridge, very exclusive community. I have never, ever heard of anyone OD’ing on aspirin. Is that even possible?
Going by what was posted in another thread, the grey haired gent was looking for the vehicle. Can’t imagine why(insert roll eyes)
CIA and 0bama's fault? No wait...I'm so confused.
It is certainly possible, although it requires a large dose. The LD50 is 200 mg/kg. LD50 is the dose at which 50% of the test subjects die (done on rats.)
At 325 mg per tablet, it would take 56 tablets to achieve this dose in a 200 pound man. Many people have taken more than that and survived, however aspirin is a blood thinner. According to the article, Kelly recently had surgery. If it was any serious surgery, the surgeon would have told him to avoid aspirin because of the blood thinning effect. So it’s possible that he knew aspirin was dangerous and used it to kill himself, or it’s possible that others knew it, too.
What pressure? From who? Name names, Rod.
The late Lenny Bruce had a bit about how they do things in Chicago—goes something like this:
“Yeah,like dig how they end business relationships,man.
Dead!
Cause of death,suicide by drowning.
Good swimmer,couldn’t get out of the car.”
It’s similar to the term “murder-death-kill” used in the movie, Demolition Man.
No but Stroger Hospital is pretty close to Marcie Park.
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