{"id":280178,"date":"2010-02-04T14:59:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01287763e4d6970c"},"modified":"2010-02-04T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:59:56","slug":"ex-gov-rod-blagojevich-re-indicted-on-political-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/280178","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich re-indicted on political corruption charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Breaking News Center<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"asset-body\"> Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was re-indicted in<br \/>\nhis corruption case today as prosecutors seek to keep an upcoming<br \/>\ndecision from the U.S. Supreme Court on &quot;honest services&quot; fraud from<br \/>\ndelaying Blagojevich&#8217;s June trial.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>The new 24-count indictment was handed up by a federal grand jury, the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office in <a class=\"autolink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/neighborhoods.html?region=1435491\">Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Read the indictment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chi-100204-blagojevich-2nd-superseding-indict-html,0,5260399.htmlpage\">HERE.<\/a> Read a government filing explaining the new indictment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chi-100204-government-filing-blago-html,0,1183446.htmlpage\">HERE<\/a>. Read a government fact sheet on the case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chi-100204-blago-indictment-factsheet-html,0,5842295.htmlpage\">HERE.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                    Blagojevich was indicted last April on 16 counts, including racketeering conspiracy. <br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nrevised indictment does not allege any new wrongdoing by Blagojevich<br \/>\nbut includes eight new counts that do not rely on honest services<br \/>\nfraud.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/2010\/02\/blagojevich-re-indicted-on-corruption-charges.html\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Breaking News Center: Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was re-indicted in his corruption case today as prosecutors seek to keep an upcoming decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on &quot;honest services&quot; fraud from delaying Blagojevich&#8217;s June trial. The new 24-count indictment was handed up by a federal grand jury, the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}