Nearly five years after commuting former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s federal prison sentence, President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full pardon to the disgraced former governor who was convicted ...
Blagojevich was convicted on corruption charges for trying to sell a Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. Trump commuted the former governor's sentence in 2020.
Rod Blagojevich, five years after commuting his 14-year sentence ... Axios first reported the news of the expected pardon on Monday afternoon. Fox News' Pat Ward and the Associated Press contributed ...
President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full and unconditional pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced former governor of Illinois who was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011 ...
Perhaps the most telling moment of the news conference Rod Blagojevich held hours after President Donald Trump granted the disgraced ex-Illinois governor a full pardon came even before he answered ...
Blagojevich, who was a Democrat while in office, supported Trump in the 2024 election and attended last July's GOP Convention.
Rod Blagojevich Monday evening — and publicly ... in the Oval Office before signing the full and unconditional pardon. “He wasn’t quite as successful, but he had somebody that saw what ...
Former Republican Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate campaign finance law, was ...
By Julie Bosman President Trump signed a full pardon on Monday for Rod R. Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois who was convicted of corruption in 2011 in a scheme to sell a ...
Rod Blagojevich, who was sent to prison on corruption charges surrounding his time in office. Signing the pardon in the Oval Office, Trump described Blagojevich as a “very fine person” and sai ...
Former Illinois governor and convicted felon Rod Blagojevich speaks to the ... Trump said on Sunday in regards to his Jan. 6 pardons. In 2011, Blagojevich was convicted on 17 counts of corruption ...