SO for those of you who didn't know, ex-illinois governor Blagojevich had been charged by the feds a while back for a whole lotta bad stuff including trying to sell or trade the vacant senator seat of current President Barack Obama, which he vehemently denied throughout the process. Well he just got found guilty of 17 of 20 counts following his second trial, the first of which ended in a deadlock. He faces up to 300 years in prison (which is ridiculous and WILL NOT happen) for the crimes, setting an interesting trend. Two governors in a row for Illinois now find themselves in or going to the correctional system. Anyways, it's no surprise to any of us that politicians are corrupt, but it's nice to see some of them get what's coming to them.
Story below:
http://beta.news.yahoo.com/jury-convicts-ex-ill-gov-blagojevich-retrial-191413841.html
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