WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year sentence for political corruption charges he commuted during his first term.

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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks to reporters before entering his home in Ravenswood Monday. President Donald Trump pardoned the former governor Monday. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share ...

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She was later featured in a Trump campaign ad that aired during the Super Bowl ... 6 defendants and a pardon for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who had been convicted on corruption charges.

President Trump said Thursday he was making Alice Johnson, whose sentence he commuted during his first term, his “pardon czar” to make recommendations about who should receive clemency. Trump made the ...

I’m sure that Republicans will now embrace the disgraced Democrat politician as one of their own because of their blind ...

Following the impeachment and removal from office of Gov. Rod Blagojevich, an ad hoc Illinois Reform Commission headed by the former federal prosecutor who had sent Blagojevich's predecessor ...

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich says he is "profoundly grateful" to President Donald Trump for pardoning him. Blagojevich spent nearly eight years in prison on corruption charges ...

Perhaps the most telling moment of the news conference Rod Blagojevich held hours after President Donald Trump granted the disgraced ex-Illinois governor a full pardon came even before he answered ...

FILE - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich tries to get into his house as he arrives home in Chicago, Feb. 19, 2020, after his release from Colorado prison late Tuesday. (AP Photo/Charles Rex ...