But the judge doesn’t give a rat.
-Chicago Sun Times: Blago: Judge should not have blown off glowing inmate letters.
More than 100 of Rod Blagojevich’s fellow inmates wrote letters to U.S. District Judge James Zagel before the former governor’s re-sentencing earlier this year.
They told the judge that Blagojevich, 60, “loves his family,” “loves to help other people,” and is “a leader and a good man.” One even wrote, “I don’t believe there is a man alive that I respect and appreciate more than Rod.”
But when Zagel took the bench in August, he said those inmates “don’t know him and they don’t know him in the context of a powerful officeholder in Congress and in Illinois.” Then, Zagel reinstated Blagojevich’s original 14-year prison sentence.
Character reference letters from fellow inmates – this is a joke, right? Blago are you really that stupid? It can’t be arrogance.
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What did Blago promise these fellow inmates to write these so-called glowing letters?
Obama hasn’t left yet, I would be amazed if Blago doesn’t receive a pardon from obarky.
@Claudia – he promised a pack of cigarettes and a candy bar – each. I’d say he got screwed.
Uh, yeah. Right. If I needed character references the first place I’d look, for guys with impeccable credentials, is a prison.
When the judge got to the parts were the inmates described Blago in the shower, the judge burned the letters.
THEY LOVE THE “ROD”!!
HEY ROD, BOHICA!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Hilarious. “Thick as thieves” comes to mind. Blago, a malignant narcissist criminal is right where he belongs – in prison. He may not get a pardon if he knows too much about Barry.
I have forgotten all about this guy-
Proverbs 10:7 comes to mind-“The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot ”
Also Psalm 109:13 ” Let their name be blotted out ”
I’m not a cruel man, I just don’t like evil people.
Some excerpts from those “glowing references”:
“Has a real purty mouth”
“Squeals like a fat white pig”
“Lets me call him by my ex wife’s name”
Loaned me his toothbrush once”
He’s still sucking up.
His prison name is probably “Bend Over Blago”
Dozens of other Illinois Democrats should be in prison with him. Most are from Chicago, of course.
Mentioning that Blago “…has the softest chin I ever laid my balls on” is not what most would call a glowing recommendation.
This is what happens when you try to sell Obama’s Senate seat without offering him a cut.
If Blago had started a not really not-for-profit Foundation and had people donate to it he would have been free.
Hillary sold (through the Clinton Foundation) ambassadorships, huge Dept. of State Contracts, jobs, government access and who knows what else.
Hillary and Bill raked in $100’s of millions and Blagojevich got 14 years in prison for something he didn’t even sell.
Will Hillary ever face justice?