{"id":333657,"date":"2010-02-18T02:37:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/ryans-wife-lawyer-appeal-to-obama"},"modified":"2010-02-18T02:37:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:37:27","slug":"ryan%e2%80%99s-wife-lawyer-appeal-to-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/333657","title":{"rendered":"Ryan\u2019s wife, lawyer appeal to Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan\u2019s wife and lawyer say they are seeking clemency from President Obama, citing health reasons for seeking Ryan\u2019s early release.<\/p>\n<p>\nRyan\u2019s 75-year-old wife, Lura Lynn, has a terminal lung disease and says she now is on oxygen 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd Ryan\u2019s attorney, former Gov. <span id=\"more-19858\"><\/span>Jim Thompson, says Ryan himself has health problems, including kidney disease and infected teeth.<\/p>\n<p>\nRyan, who was sent to a federal prison in Indiana after his 2006 conviction and 6\u00bd-year sentence on corruption charges, turns 76 next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a telephone interview Wednesday with the Chicago Tribune, Lura Lynn Ryan confirmed she had made a previous plea for clemency for her imprisoned husband in 2008 by calling then-President George W. Bush\u2019s mother, former first lady Barbara Bush. She said she was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.pjstar.com\/news\/x925449324\/Ryans-wife-lawyer-appeal-to-Obama\" title=\"Ryan's wife, lawyer appeal to Obama\" rel='nofollow'>Journal Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zKWoVLsc3OEG2e9i-WYp3sRJGwE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zKWoVLsc3OEG2e9i-WYp3sRJGwE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zKWoVLsc3OEG2e9i-WYp3sRJGwE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zKWoVLsc3OEG2e9i-WYp3sRJGwE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=9fQL5J_DfFQ:6IAgYllj6zs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=9fQL5J_DfFQ:6IAgYllj6zs:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=9fQL5J_DfFQ:6IAgYllj6zs:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=9fQL5J_DfFQ:6IAgYllj6zs:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/9fQL5J_DfFQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan\u2019s wife and lawyer say they are seeking clemency from President Obama, citing health reasons for seeking Ryan\u2019s early release. Ryan\u2019s 75-year-old wife, Lura Lynn, has a terminal lung disease and says she now is on oxygen 24 hours a day. And Ryan\u2019s attorney, former Gov. Jim Thompson, says Ryan himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333657","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}