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To the surprise of absolutely nobody in the entire state, Governor Rod Blagojevich denied any wrongdoing in the Tony Rezko trial at a press conference held Wednesday to announce the demolition of the hall where the NIU shootings occurred. Blagojevich denied that he is the Public Official A cited in the federal indictment against Tony Rezko. "It doesn't matter what letter of the alphabet it is. What was described there doesn't describe me or how I do things," Blagojevich told the Tribune. When pressed on the matter, Blago told the Sun-Times that he is "not involved in this court case. I don't know much about it. I have a job to do as governor. It's a full-time job. I don't think it's fair to comment on a pending court case."
According to prosecutors, Blagojevich's campaign coffers grew in exchange for influence on state boards that Rezko profited from. While the governor tap-danced around the indictment, Rezko's defense team took swipes at the government's case. Complaining that Blagojevich's former campaign finance director Kelly Glynn, the government's first witness in the case was not on the government's list that was submitted to the defense, they charged that "the government is, at best, a moving target and, at worst, sandbagging the defendant and the court as to what its evidence will actually be at trial."
Jury selection is set to begin on Monday, and the trial may begin as soon as March 6.
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This whole thing just keeps getting stranger and stranger. That Iraqi guy who is actually the money man... loans here and there that don't have to be paid back...
I don't care what you folks say!
I'm gonna miss Blago's aggressive parade style running back and forth shaking hands, working up a sweat! Word! State police protection detail can't keep up, staff members in running shorts with signs! ROCK ON!
You haters!
p.s
Ya Bunny needs a beer!
Do you think Blago and Ryan will share a cell?
Cer, Oh please, look at that man! You think he's gonna spend more than two weeks in prison? He's gonna bust out ala Tom Cruise Mission Impossible style. Break into the Fed building, get information that clears his name, umask the persons who framed him, Lisa Madigan and Pat Quinn and become President with O'Bama as his Vice, it will be revealed that O'Bama helped Blago escape. And you Cer will be front row when the movie comes to Big Screen with Tom Cruise playing Blago!
Faaantastic you!
@Spook:
You bash everyone at every corner, yet you're essentially a coward who can't show his face.
Bow down to your superior.
/2008 Chicagoist Trivia Pursuit Champion
spook will you be selling popcorn at the opening?
Whats he going to say "I am offical A and I expect to be indicted right after Rezko is found guilty" Deny deny deny right up to the end. I am not a crook, I did not have sex with that women,
He truly is a rod
PlumPlum82, You are soo wrong bro! I was there! I can help if every one assumed that I was Black instead of blonde and Blue Eyed husky build guy! I sat there and watched you "win" the whole night! I even brought Spav1 a budlite! I chatted her up outside smoking. I'm taking her out for dinner at the Hard Rock cafe and its on to the Excalibur do to a little "raising the roof"!
And truth be told, she said the rest of the Chicagoist players let you win because, well hate to break it to you, but they thought you were strange and might get violent if they didn't let you win.
Cer nope, I don't mix work with movies. But I do mix drinking. So when you hear the silence of the movie shattered( as Blago right before his escape, tells a teary George Ryan that he will come back for him)by the sound of a empty beer bottel tumbling down the middle of the theater floor accompanied by an Opps! You will know that your boy Spook kicked over one of his empties by mistake!
What's interesting is... that's EXACTLY how the night played out.
And what's more, I should have known the fix was in when Spav's roommate missed "To off-road enthusiasts, what does the letters 'SUV' mean?"
@Fed: He could say something that indicates the obvious (this man raised money for me), but, as long as he's lying and whatnot, claim that there was no understanding with his office that jobs would be procured and it was all everyone's-favorite-methhead-Levine's big talk, but with no authority to do anything. It's plausible and would undercut the media to some degree.
Instead we get this Inland Empire twist of "It might look exactly like me, but it's really someone else entirely, quite possibly some physical manifestation of primordial political cynicism that terrorizes an parallel Springfield that you enter by going through the wrong door at the Governor's Mansion."
Spavs to uppity to drink a budlight.
She started with Schlitz, then double fisted free Goose Island IPA's before switching to Bud Light.
I totally missed the Chicagoist Trivial Pursuit!!
Damn Damn Damn
Anyway...Blago's a tool.What exactly do governor's do anyway?
Jay apperently in Illinois they make alot of money seliing state jobs and contracts to "campaign contributors". and put there name on everything they can.
@JayDeeMv2:
I have a feeling, we're gonna have a rematch real soon. Matty, you, and Spook all deserve a shot at the champ (re: me) because I don't feel like a true "cock of the walk" without facing everyone.
But I have to warn you, what little I did see from Spav was strong. If she didn't have ADHD, it probably would have been bad for me.