Throughout Rod Blagojevich’s race against my late mother, Judy Baar Topinka, for the post of Illinois governor in 2005, campaign advertisements would state, “What is she thinking?” ...

Rumors are circulating on social media that President Donald Trump did not actually pardon Rod Blagojevich, the former ...

Former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich, who had been convicted of trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat and of extortion in 2011. Trump commuted his sentence in 2020 and pardoned ...

One of the more recent pardons was for the former governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich. He was a Democrat. . . . [Trump] seems much more interested in undermining anti-corruption laws left ...

Rod Blagojevich still isn’t letting go of his conviction—and he now wants retribution.

Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

Аfter more than two decades, Nikola Blagojevic and Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois whom Trump recently pardoned of corruption charges, met in their homeland, in the family home near ...

Prosecutors in the Justice Department section that handles public corruption cases have been told the unit will be ...

Former Republican Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate campaign finance law, was ...

Pete Rose, banned from baseball over gambling violations, is getting a measure of posthumous redemption through a pardon for ...

Others — Rod Blagojevich of Illinois and Robert Bentley of Alabama ... the disruption that helps them today,” he said. The governor-to-mayor pipeline is not unprecedented for those who ...