The Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2011
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28 juin 2011
Bob Secter and Jeff Coen
"A federal jury Monday convicted
Rod Blagojevich of sweeping corruption, putting an end to a tragicomic legal and political drama that brought downIllinois' showy and would-be populist former governor.
"In its 10th day of deliberations, the 11-woman, one-man jury convicted Blagojevich of several shakedown attempts, including allegations that he brazenly tried to sellPresident
Barack Obama's oldU.S. Senate seat in 2008. The decisive verdict came less than a year after the first jury to hear the case found him guilty of one criminal charge but deadlocked on the rest."
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