The Democratic governor campaign started impacting state government Friday when Comptroller Dan Hynes refused to go along with Gov. Pat Quinn's plan to borrow $500 million to pay down a stack of bills. The governor said his rival is playing politics
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich has always maintained he wants the public to hear all of the undercover government recordings in his federal corruption case, and now maybe he'll get his wish. Chicago police were looking into an early-morning burglary
News Source: Charlotte Observer Online
| about 11 hours ago
Burglars broke into the offices occupied by two members of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's legal defense team overnight and stole eight computers and a safe, police said Friday. The break-in occurred at the South Side offices of veteran Chicago
Chicago police are investigating a burglary at the offices of attorneys for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich in which at least one computer containing undercover recordings from the sweeping corruption case was stolen, sources said.
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich would claim his 5th Amendment right against self incrimination if asked to testify in a civil lawsuit spurred by his federal corruption indictment, his lawyer says. Attorney Jay Edelson told The Associated Press
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 day ago
I've been staring for days at the endless TV loop of Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the "pair of idiots," as they are now widely described here, who waltzed into a White House state dinner last week without an invitation.
Quinn accused Hynes, the state comptroller, of holding up the proposed borrowing plan for political reasons, saying he and Giannoulias were ready to move forward but Hynes' office won't meet with the governor's budget office to discuss the proposal. "
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