Friday, March 2, 2012

What have prosecutors proved about Blagojevich?

Federal prosecutors have spent five weeks showing Rod Blagojevich spewed a river of profanity while lavishing money on his wardrobe and ducking his job as governor of Illinois. But will jurors believe he was a racketeer who schemed to sell or trade Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat for personal gain?

The government plans to rest as early as Tuesday, after presenting a case based heavily on wiretaps in which jurors heard Blagojevich saying he wanted something in return for the seat.

"I've got this thing and it's (expletive) golden _ I'm just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing," Blagojevich plainly says on one of the most-quoted tapes.

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