The FBI affidavit said Blagojevich had been told by an adviser "the president-elect can get Rod Blagojevich's wife on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect's pick to the Senate." Told by two other advisers he has to "suck it up" for two years, the FBI says it heard Blagojevich complain he has to givethis "motherf***er [the president-elect] his senator. F*** him. For nothing? F*** him." The governor is heard saying he will pick another candidate "before I just give f***ing [Senate Candidate l] a f***ing Senate seat and I don't get anything."
One charge was for trying to auction off Obama's vacant Senate seat to highest bidder. Attorney General Patrick Fitgerald who brought the charges said, "He wasn't against a corrupt deal, he was against being stiffed in a corrupt deal." The affidavit quotes Blagojevich telling an adviser that a Senate seat "is a [expletive] valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing."
"I'm going to keep this Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain," Blagojevich said, according to the affidavit.
One charge was for trying to auction off Obama's vacant Senate seat to highest bidder. Attorney General Patrick Fitgerald who brought the charges said, "He wasn't against a corrupt deal, he was against being stiffed in a corrupt deal." The affidavit quotes Blagojevich telling an adviser that a Senate seat "is a [expletive] valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing."
"I'm going to keep this Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain," Blagojevich said, according to the affidavit.
Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff, John Harris, were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption charges alleging that they and others are engaging in ongoing criminal activity
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