Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this year had a high-powered criminal defense attorney at Winston & Strawn working for him to fend off a five-year federal probe, but on Tuesday he appeared with a little known Chicago criminal defense lawyer from a small firm. Attorney Sheldon Sorosky of Kaplan & Sorosky represented Blagojevich during a federal court bond hearing in Chicago after a two-count criminal complaint alleging fraud and bribery was delivered earlier in the day.
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Illinois governor represented by little-known defense counsel — for now
The National Law Journal
December 10, 2008
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