Chicago defense attorney Allan Ackerman filed papers in federal court asking permission to withdraw from former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s defense team on Thursday. Ackerman said he is “No longer able to stridently participate in the defense of the accused.” In an interview with WLS-TV in Chicago Ackerman said that he had differences with others on [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Back in Julof y we learned about a scandal at the University of Illinois. Former Governor Rod Blagojevich used his influence to gain admission to the law school for several well connected candidates, in exchange for finding high paying jobs for five graduates regardless of their academic record or bar exam results. Having [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The Chicago Tribune has uncovered a “jobs-for-entry” scandal at the University of Illinois College of Law, in which the law school admitted politically-connected applicants, some unqualified, in exchange for guarantees of jobs for law graduates. In one example, recorded in emails obtained by the paper, University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman coerced the law school in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 26, 2009
Six Chicago lawyers have been hired by the Blagojevich defense team as pretrial contract lawyers, to examine the 3.5 million pages of documents provided by the prosecution. Former Illinois Governor Milorad “Rod” Blagojevich has been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and solicitation of bribery. The six attorneys are Michael Di Natale, Aaron Goldstein, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 2, 2009
Mayor Lorenzo Langford of Atlantic City, New Jersey, has announced that two days after taking office in November, he fired all six municipal attorneys, then rehired two of them, apparently saving the resort city $296,520. But Langford has introduced to the City Council for approval six contracts for private law firms, totaling more than $500,000, to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Defense lawyers are claiming that Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich’s recent high profile interviews will probably hurt him when his case comes to trial as any statement he makes regarding the case could be used against him by prosecutors. Since last week, the Illinois Governor has been on various radio and national television shows such as [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 24, 2009
Comparing himself to a cowboy facing a hanging, Democratic Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich condemned the state Senate for preparing to remove him from office, so it could raise taxes on the middle class and serve the special interests. “The heart and soul of this has been a struggle of me against the system,” he said. Blagojevich’s lead [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
The Am Law Daily reports on four law firms that have done quite well from client Rod Blagojevich, the embattled Illinois Governor, over the last six months. According to documents released on Tuesday to the Illinois State Board of Elections by Blago’s campaign fund, Friends of Blagojevich, four firms have received payments totaling nearly $1.4 million [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
The prosecutor in Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s pending impeachment trial in the state Senate said today he will call more than a dozen witnesses. Blagojevich, however, did not respond to a discovery deadline seeking witnesses, documents and other materials that would be used in his defense, the Chicago Tribune reported. The impeachment trial is scheduled to begin [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 9, 2009
The Illinois House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to impeach the Pepperdine University School of Law’s most prestigious alum, Governor Rod R. Blagojevich, this Friday morning on the grounds of abuse of power as the state’s chief executive. He is the first governor in Illinois’s history to be impeached, and his case now goes to the state [...]
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