One more…
Bwahahahaha!
Illinois Governor Rod “Blago” Blagojevich was arrested this morning.
For more good news on this subject, let’s see what Reuters has to say about it…
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and solicitation of bribery on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement.
This is good enough, but America’s favorite prosecutor had this to say about the charges…
“The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering,” U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement. “They allege that Blagojevich put a ‘for sale’ sign on the naming of a United States senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target; and corruptly used his office in an effort to trample editorial voices of criticism.”
…and he’s seen some corruption in his time!
See? It’s not all bad news out there.
– bob
UPDATE: Edited to add Ted Stevens Memorial Career Iconography.
UPDATE II: Here’s a link to the news report on WSIL TV. I can see it through the filters here, so hopefully it’ll get past whatever foolishness is keeping you from seeing other video content.
UPDATE 3: The New York Times has a handy blog post with the complaint (Mrs. Anonymous notes in the comments that the complaint is hilarious). The link to the post contains this warning though:
Poor Pinch! Politics ain’t pretty!
UPDATE D: Yes, I’m enjoying the alliteration, why do you ask? (um, nobody asked. – ed But they might!)