An attorney for Rod Blagojevich says questioning President Barack Obama as a witness in the corruption case against the former Illinois governor would be “awesome,” but that he doesn’t know if it would be necessary or even possible.
Blagojevich is charged with scheming to sell or trade Obama’s former Senate seat.
Sen. Roland Burris, whose deep ties to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seemed to doom his Senate tenure from the start, will not run for a full Senate term in 2010. The move increases Democrats’ chances of holding on to the former Senate seat of President Barack Obama.
Burris issued a press release on Thursday evening [...]
A former chief of staff to Rod Blagojevich pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking part in a scheme to use President Barack Obama’s Senate seat as leverage to get the then-governor into a high-paying job.
“I have never met a person who is going to be a better witness than John Harris is going to be,” defense [...]
U.S. Sen. Roland Burris won’t face a perjury charge over statements he made to state lawmakers investigating how he got his job, but the junior senator still faces the task of salvaging his political future and shaking the stigma of his link to the disgraced former governor who put him in office.
Burris had promised a [...]
Sen. Roland W. Burris will not be charged with perjury in connection with the impeachment of former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, according to a state prosecutor.
Inconsistencies in Burris statements opened the door to an investigation by Sangamon County States Attorney John Schmidt. But in a letter to Illinois House Speaker Michael J.
Even in a Senate club famous for how it ostracizes the unwanted, the shunning of Democratic Sen. Roland Burris is unprecedented.
The evidence is everywhere he goes on Capitol Hill.
Tainted from the day he was appointed by ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and resented by Senate leaders who allowed themselves to be coerced into seating him, [...]
Sen. Roland Burris said Wednesday he did not tell an Illinois House impeachment committee that he promised to help then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s campaign while also pushing for a Senate appointment because, like any good lawyer, he did not want to volunteer information he was not asked about.
“You’re being asked questions and one thing you don’t [...]
Roland Burris isn’t hiding after a judge allowed the release of a transcript in which the senator offers to “personally do something” for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s campaign fund.
“Did I try to buy the seat? Never,” Burris told reporters Wednesday outside his Chicago home before he set out on a two-day tour of central Illinois.
Sen. Roland W. Burris told the brother of former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich last November that he was “very much interested” in President Obamas former Senate seat and also wanted to help raise money for Blagojevich. But Burris also said that he was concerned about any appearance that he was “trying to buy an [...]
A federal judge is expected to release to the Senate Ethics Committee a copy of a secretly recorded phone conversation last year between Sen. Roland W. Burris and the brother of former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich.
Burris, who maintains he did nothing wrong, sought release of the taped conversation by authorities reportedly between him and [...]
