Federal Sources: Fitzgerald Held Off Blagojevich Bust to Protect Obama Election Chances; Did Obama Fail Ethics Requirements of Illinois Bar?
December 12, 2008
12/11/2008
A federal source of mine with ties to Chicago says that FBI agents had enough to prosecute corrupt, helmet-haired Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich back in June, when he was already engaged in some of the blackmail and extortion alleged by the FBI affidavit and other documents associated with his arrest and prosecution.
The source says that the FBI was suddenly ordered by the U.S. Attorney’s Office–and I believe that order came from the top, ie., U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and Justice Department officials in Washington–to hold off on doing anything until after the election, so as not to hurt Obama’s White House bid.
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Sheesh. How goofy do you have to be to see the arrest of a Democratic governor as an anti-Republican conspiracy.
Fitzgerald himself said that he wrapped it up EARLY to stop some of the corrupt acts coming to fruit. He would have preferred to work on it a few more months so that he could pull in a whole swath of additional co-conspirators. I don’t know for sure whom but he still has his eyes on mayor Daley; another corrupt Democrat that he’s been trying to nail.
The idea that this is somehow a plot to favor Democrats is just an outrageous slander.