{"id":335155,"date":"2010-02-18T11:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/george-ryans-wife-lawyer-appeal-to-obama"},"modified":"2010-02-18T11:01:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:01:40","slug":"george-ryan%e2%80%99s-wife-lawyer-appeal-to-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/335155","title":{"rendered":"George Ryan\u2019s wife, lawyer appeal to Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan’s wife and lawyer say they are seeking clemency from President Barack Obama, citing health reasons for seeking Ryan’s early release.<\/p>\n

Ryan’s 75-year-old wife, Lura Lynn, has a terminal lung disease and says she now is on oxygen 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n

And Ryan’s attorney, former Gov. Jim Thompson, says Ryan himself has health problems, including kidney disease and infected teeth. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan, who was sent to a federal prison in Indiana after his 2006 conviction on corruption charges, turns 76 next Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In 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’s mother, former first lady Barbara Bush.<\/p>\n

She said she was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

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Imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan’s wife and lawyer say they are seeking clemency from President Barack Obama, citing health reasons for seeking Ryan’s early release. Ryan’s 75-year-old wife, Lura Lynn, has a terminal lung disease and says she now is on oxygen 24 hours a day. And Ryan’s attorney, former Gov. Jim Thompson, says Ryan […]<\/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-335155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335155","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=335155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}