Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich pleaded not guilty Wednesday to revised corruption charges and challenged prosecutors to let jurors hear all the FBI's recordings of conversations in which prosecutors say he schemed to sell or trade President Obama's former Senate seat. The revised indictment is similar to the old one but adds charges that prosecutors believe will stand up in court even if the U.S. Supreme Court throws out a federal "honest services" fraud law on which many of the original indictment's charges are based.
February 11, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich pleaded not guilty Wednesday to revised federal corruption charges and challenged prosecutors to allow jurors to hear all of the FBI’s recordings of his telephone conversations.
Sounding unusually combative after the brief hearing, Blagojevich told reporters he would not ask Judge James B. Zagel to prevent jurors from hearing FBI wiretaps in which prosecutors say he schemed to sell or trade President Obama’s former Senate seat.
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