Former President Donald Trump has issued a complete pardon to Rod Blagojevich ... an attempt to sell the U.S. Senate seat that Barack Obama vacated following his 2008 presidential victory.

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After Rod Blagojevich was arrested in 2008 and convicted of attempting to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat, his home on Sunnyside Avenue became a prime media target. Rod Blagojevich lives in ...

CHICAGO — Perhaps the most telling moment of the news conference Rod Blagojevich held hours ... seat being vacated by then-President elect Barack Obama, he didn’t explain that five charges ...

Less than two months after President Donald Trump pardoned Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois who ...

Whoops," Jackson wrote on X above a photograph of what appears to be a pardon of Blagojevich without a ... campaign money for an appointment to Barack Obama's Senate seat once he was elected ...

Rod Blagojevich has a new job: representing the interests of an ultranationalist politician known as the “Bosnian Bear” who has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The former Illinois ...

To the editor: Donald Trump has pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted on 18 corruption charges, including an effort to sell Barack Obama's senate seat after he was elected ...

Rod Blagojevich was issued a pardon by President ... convicted of trying to sell the Senate seat of then-President-elect Barack Obama, had his 14-year prison sentence commuted by Trump in Feb ...

Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year sentence for ... that included seeking to sell an appointment to then-President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children’s hospital.

Rod Blagojevich’s federal prison sentence ... including the attempted sale of then-President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat, which, as governor, Blagojevich had the sole power to fill.

Rod Blagojevich, who was sent to prison on ... an appointment to fill the vacant Senate seat left by then-President Barack Obama. A first trial resulted in a hung jury on many of the key charges ...