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FBI: Blago wanted payoff to give Obama adviser Senate seat By: Jonathan Martin and Carrie Budoff Brown December 9, 2008 01:22 PM EST Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was captured on tape saying that unless he received “something real good” for the appointment of a top adviser to Barack Obama to fill the president-elect’s Senate seat he would appoint himself, according to the criminal complaint. Federal prosecutors allege that Blagojevich explored one possible quid-pro-quo – he’d appoint a top adviser to Obama in exchange for Obama giving Blagojevich the post as as secretary of health and human services. The indictment makes clear the Obama adviser is Valerie Jarrett, now an Obama White House aide. “Unless I get something real good [for Senate candidate 1], s***, I’ll just send myself, you know what I’m saying,” Blagojevich was taped saying on Nov. 3, the day before Election Day. Blagojevich, a Democrat, added that the Senate seat: “is a f***ing valuable thing, you just don’t give it away for nothing.” In announcing the indictment, federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said of Blagojevich: “The conduct would make Lincoln roll over in his grave. . . Governor Blagojevich has taken us to a truly new low. He attempted to sell a Senate seat.” As for Obama, Fitzgerald said, “I’m not going to speak to what the president-elect knew. We make no allegations that he’s aware of anything.” Obama’s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The charges upend the process of filling the open Senate seat and threaten to subject the president-elect to an onslaught of press scrutiny about what he knew about the investigation. The governor and his chief of staff John Harris were also charged with demanding the firing of members of the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board in exchange for helping the Tribune Co. with the sale of Chicago’s Wrigley Field. Blagojevich also was caught on federal wiretaps saying he was interested in private sector jobs as well, including a well-paid position on a foundation board, or millions of dollars for a nonprofit organization that he would run after leaving office, according to a 78-page federal criminal complaint. Additionally, Blagojevich sought a seat for his wife on corporate boards where she could reap significant salaries. The complaint details conversations between Blagojevich and Tony Rezko, a major Chicago fundraiser and one-time benefactor to Obama. "I want to make money," the affidavit quotes the governor as saying. The Illinois Republican Party called on the governor to resign his office effective immediately. “If Governor Blagojevich does not resign his position, we urge the General Assembly to move swiftly with impeachment proceedings,” the party said in a statement. “Furthermore, Governor Blagojevich should not, under this cloud of extremely serious allegations, appoint a United States Senator. While there is a presumption of innocence, in these troubling economic times, the people’s work should be placed ahead of Governor Blagojevich’s legal troubles.” http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16348.html

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