Rahm on Tape with Blago?

[Riot]

Oh and by the way under no circumstances do I want the former f'n Gov Ryan, who happens to be a Republican, to be pardoned. Let him think about the Willis family from behind bars.

Geesh, I miss my home state ... One of the comedy shows said that one has better odds of going to jail if you are an Illinois governor, than if you commit murder.

I'm worried about what all the lawyers coming out of the woodwork on the news shows are saying ... that Blago may be an unethical scumbag, but he hasn't yet done anything technically illegal (that we've heard).

The "no concern to Obama" comment was in the first press conference by the State's attorney.

Emanual is a tough SOB you don't want to mess with, but the rep people always talked about (during the Clinton years, and in Chicago) is that he's a honest tough SOB (he's loath to do anything illegal).

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by Riot

Geesh, I miss my home state ... One of the comedy shows said that one has better odds of going to jail if you are an Illinois governor, than if you commit murder.

I'm worried about what all the lawyers coming out of the woodwork on the news shows are saying ... that Blago may be an unethical scumbag, but he hasn't yet done anything technically illegal (that we've heard).

The "no concern to Obama" comment was in the first press conference by the State's attorney.

Emanual is a tough SOB you don't want to mess with, but the rep people always talked about (during the Clinton years, and in Chicago) is that he's a honest tough SOB (he's loath to do anything illegal).

they'll nail him for conspiracy to sell the seat. it doesn't matter that he didn't actually complete the transaction (which is what the defense attorney will argue).

they don't wait for someone to actually bomb a building. if the evidence is there, they'll make the conspiracy charge and stop the illegal act before it occurs. same thing here.

[dellinger63]

I remember Fitzgerald decribing it as corruption crime spree.


corruption crime spree = RICO

[dellinger63]

Did did go back and read the transcript of Fitzgerald's Press conference and Found nothing exonerating Obama or for that matter anyone at all. What I did find was:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008...erence_on.html transcript of Fitzgerald press conference.

Q Also would you address the fact -- and I know you've referred to this -- would you just address whether or not President-elect Obama was aware that any of these things were taking place?
MR. FITZGERALD: Okay. I'm not going to speak for what the president-elect was aware of. We make no allegations that he's aware of anything, and that's as simply as I can put it.

Q In the briefings that President-elect Obama has had over the past weeks with various government departments here, would it be possible for him to have been briefed on what was going on here with regard to this investigation?
MR. FITZGERALD: I'm not going to comment on that. I'm not the briefer. I'm not at those meetings. But I would simply say that this was very close-hold in Washington, and on a need-to-know basis. So I'm -- but I'm not going to -- I'm not the briefer, so I'm not going to represent what happens. But -- I'll leave it at that.