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 ...

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

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich helps correct an injustice and is a proper use of the president’s pardon power. Blagojevich was a rare Illinois ...

Five years after his release from prison, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich still isn’t letting go of his conviction—and ...

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, five years after commuting his 14-year sentence for political corruption charges.

Find him on Twitter @GabeWhisnant. President Donald Trump pardoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Monday night, five years after commuting his sentence on corruption charges.

Blagojevich was convicted on corruption charges for trying to sell a Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. Trump commuted the former governor's sentence in 2020.

President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full and unconditional pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced former governor of Illinois who was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011 ...

The ramifications could be significant. The pardon represents another remarkable step in Rod Blagojevich 2.0. "Even though he's been released and is able to be in freedom, you're not really free ...

Rod Blagojevich Monday. He served time in prison on corruption charges that included a scheme to sell a vacant Senate seat. Gov. JB Pritzker spoke at an unrelated event Tuesday morning ...