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Trump had reportedly considered Blagojevich as a potential U.S. ambassador to Serbia, but on Friday he announced that he had picked former Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich for the role.
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.
Trump had reportedly considered Blagojevich as a potential U.S. ambassador to Serbia, but on Friday he announced that he had picked former Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich for the role.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump granted ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich a full and unconditional pardon on Monday, five years after commuting his 14-year sentence for political corruption ...
Gov. Rod Blagojevich refuses to talk to reporters Dec. 16, 2008, as he leaves his house on the Northwest Side. He was carrying a briefcase and a gym bag.
President Trump's new team for the Balkans includes some familiar faces with close ties to Serbia: son-in-law Jared Kushner, former special envoy Richard Grenell and ex-governor Rod Blagojevich.
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich says he is "profoundly grateful" to President Donald Trump for pardoning him. Blagojevich spent nearly eight years in prison on corruption charges, for ...
Trump pardons Rod Blagojevich, who tried to sell Obama’s vacated Senate seat. The former Illinois governor was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011.
Blagojevich declined to discuss speculation that Trump was considering appointing him as the next U.S. ambassador to Serbia. He said his father came from Serbia and that in recently visiting the ...
CHICAGO — Perhaps the most telling moment of the news conference Rod Blagojevich held hours after President Donald Trump granted the disgraced ex-Illinois governor a full pardon came even before ...
I looked Rod Blagojevich straight in the eye and asked a question that had been on my mind for the past few years. “Do you think Trump will pardon you?" I asked. “Yes,” he replied without ...
Among Illinois political leaders, Republicans and Democrats found rare common ground in their reaction to news that President Donald Trump has pardoned former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, convicted on ...