Blagojevich verdict reached on 18 of 20 counts, Blagojevich jury in courtroom this afternoon, June 27, 2011
The Blagojevich trial jury has reached a verdict on 18 of 20 counts. The verdict will be read in the courtroom this afternoon.
Counts 1,2 and 4 were dropped earlier this year.
United States v. Rod R. Blagojevich, 08 CR 888 (N.D. IL)
Amended fact sheet / Second superseding indictment
April 2011 trial
Charges: Counts
Wire fraud 3, 5-13
Attempted extortion 14, 15, 19, 22
Bribery 16, 20
Extortion conspiracy 17, 21
Bribery conspiracy 18, 23
Forfeiture Allegation Two
Penalties (maximum on each count): Imprisonment Fine
Wire fraud,
attempted extortion and
extortion conspiracy 20 years $250,000
Bribery 10 years $250,000
Bribery conspiracy 5 years $250,000
The defendant is presumed innocent and is entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
http://www.justice.gov/usao/iln/hot/us_v_blagojevich/rrb_amended%20fact_sheet_4-2011.pdf
Citizen WElls 
“IS ‘EVIDENCE’ OF CRIMES ERASED BEFORE OUR EYES?”
“Attorneys see attempt at backdoor book ban as effort to avoid charges for aiding terrorism”
By Art Moore
© 2011 WND
June 26, 2011
Excerpt:
“The legal complaint by a U.S.-based Islamic lobby group asking a federal judge to expunge all copies of a best-selling exposé that documents the group’s terrorist ties is an attempt to eliminate evidence that could lead to criminal prosecution, according to a lawyer defending a co-author of the book.”
Read More Here: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=313641#ixzz1QUo4gw5P
CW,
I hope this afternoon doesn’t bring us: 18 of 20 not guilty and 2 of 20 can’t decide.
“MY ECONOMIC VISION: A JOB FOR EVERY HOME”
By Herman Cain
We The People
World Net Daily Commentary © 2011
June 26, 2011
Excerpt:
“I have developed many strategic plans for success throughout my 40 years of business experience, but the one I am about to present for the nation is the most humbling. Business strategic plans had to capture the keys to profitability and growth. This national economic vision must capture the keys to prosperity for everyone who has a desire to achieve their American dreams.
It starts with education, then a job and then a career.
People who achieve “success” are able to get beyond day-to-day survival. They find a way to thrive, constantly looking for that next exciting opportunity. This thrive attitude can be rekindled here in this great country, because we have the resources, the ingenuity and that spirit of America that has allowed us to survive during hard times and thrive when times were better.”
Read More Here: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=315905#ixzz1QUtoVkpf © 2011
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“HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE “PROJECT GUNRUNNER” –
“ATF UNDER FIRE FOR ARMING MEXICAN BANDITS”
April 11, 2011
By Jerome R. Corsi
Excerpt:
“Last week, Rep. Darrell Issa, R — Calif., http://oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1231&Itemid=29 issued a subpoena to the Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobaco, Firearms, and Explosives, or ATF, related to the highly controversial “Project Gunrunner.”
Somehow the Obama administration though selling weapons in the U.S. to Mexican drug cartel members and other criminals was a good way to keep weapons sold in the U.S. out of the hands of Mexican drug cartel members and other criminals.”
Read More Here: http://www.jeromecorsi.com/#article.php/75
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“‘RATHERGATE’ EXPERT ON BIRTH CERTIFICATE: ‘HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS’
TYPOGRAPHY PRO PLAYED KEY ROLE IN ENDING CAREER OF CBS NEWS ANCHOR”
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2011 WND
June 24, 2011
Excerpt:
“If I saw these differences in a document I was examining, it would scream out at me that the document was a ‘cut-and-paste’ fraud,” Newcomer said.
He said that the Hawaii Department of Health should release the original Obama birth certificate to the public for independent forensic examination.
“Often a forensic expert can determine a forged document with certainty by examining a copy of the document,” he pointed out. “But the only way to prove the document is authentic is to have the original in your hands.”
Read More Here:
‘Rathergate’ expert on birth certificate: ‘Highly suspicious’ http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=314297#ixzz1QUvyj5s7
I have had doubts about Michele Bachman’s candidacy for POTUS. Found this in the comments at The Hill. There’s always the chance that this was written by an obot, but the accusations are correct IMO.
Buyer beware. At this point I don’t even think she would make a good VP.
(Bachmann is delusional. She has NO EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE. She is the Dumb-Ø on the right side of the aisle. Tea Party patriots are angry with Bachmann that she attempted to usurp the Tea Party leadership for her own political gain. Where were you Michele leading the troops to vote against Pigford II? Where are you Michele rallying the troops against the raising of the debt ceiling? Nowhere, that’s where. Pass the leadership of the Tea Party caucus to some other member if you are serious about advancing the Tea Party agenda. Othewise you are just another typical DC insider opportunist who chose to screw “we the people.” Bachmann, with friends like you, who needs enemies? The Tea Party doesn’t have time to take a back seat to your delusional run for POTUS. All talk and NO action Michele.)
This entire “Blago” trial is not about him. This trial is a cover up for the corrupt Obama and his band of Chicago thugs. If it were anything else, Obama would be in jail by now. There must be a hugh amount of money passing hands to keep Obama out of this trial. The trial is no more than a kangaroo court. It is apparent that the judge on down to “Balgo” that the corruption runs deep into the Obama regime. It’s time for the Feds to put Obama where he belongs….On a plane back to Africa.
Starla | June 27, 2011 at 11:51 am |
Are you a computer?
Norman | June 27, 2011 at 12:31 pm |
Bounel is the “Feds”
And we are stuck with him on USG payroll for the rest of his life. Wherever he goes.
My Blago prediction
Not guilty on 18 counts deadlocked on 2.
Looks like USG and defense Esq. have agreed to partial verdict.
Re: Pat 1789 | June 27, 2011 at 12:36 pm | Starla | June 27, 2011 at 11:51 am |
Are you a computer?
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Are you a joke?!
WGN-TV live stream of Blagojevich heading to court:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/videobeta/?watchLive=wgntv-tivid-livestream-95
citizenwells | June 27, 2011 at 1:12 pm |
Thanks
WLS on the net has it as well.
“SOROS AND LIBERAL GROUPS SEEKING TOP ELECTION POSTS IN BATTLEGROUND STATES”
“Billionaire hedge-fund operator George Soros is among wealthy liberal activists who have contributed to the Secretary of State Project, a 527 organization that works to put progressive Democrats in office overseeing elections in battleground states.” (Associated Press)
By Chuck Neubauer
The Washington Times
June 23, 2011
Excerpt:
“A small tax-exempt political group with ties to wealthy liberals like billionaire financier George Soros has quietly helped elect 11 reform-minded progressive Democrats as secretaries of state to oversee the election process in battleground states and keep Republican “political operatives from deciding who can vote and how those votes are counted.”
Known as the Secretary of State Project (SOSP), the organization was formed by liberal activists in 2006 to put Democrats in charge of state election offices, where key decisions often are made in close races on which ballots are counted and which are not.
The group’s website said it wants to stop Republicans from “manipulating” election results.”
Read More Here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/23/section-527-works-to-seat-liberals-as-election-ove/
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From: http://jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com/2011/06/executive-order-13575-fascist-stealth.html
“EXECUTIVE ORDER 13575: “THE FASCIST STEALTH OF AGENDA 21 IS UPON US”
“Posted By Erica”
June 26, 2011
By Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
TrevorLouden.com
June 26, 2011
Excerpt:
“I didn’t even know about Agenda 21 until a couple of months ago. Did you know it has been around since 1992? It is quietly and stealthily being implemented throughout the United States and the world. And within its scope is contained some oldie but goody concerns that I have held for some time: confiscation of public lands by the government (the Wilderness Project), EPA over-regulation, population distribution and control and the list just keeps getting longer and scarier… Agenda 21 is a 40 chapter plan that lists a series of goals to be achieved globally. It is the global blueprint for changing the way we “live, eat, learn and communicate” because we must “save the earth.” Humans be damned.
Under Agenda 21, everything you can imagine would be heavily controlled by the government: water, electricity and transportation are just some of the areas of concentration that are targeted. This new way of living would usher in an uber-nanny state globally, the likes of which we have never dreamed of. Forget one-world government… Think one-world totalitarian regime.
So what exactly does Agenda 21 entail? It consists of 115 specific programs designed to facilitate, or to force, the transition to Sustainable Development. The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of the Earth Summit, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. Agenda 21 is broken into 8 sections:” (snip).
■Agriculture
■Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management
■Education
■Energy and Housing
■Population
■Public Health
■Resources and Recycling
■Transportation, Sustainable Economic Development ” (snip).
“Sustainable Rural Communities” are code words for the UN plan for Sustainable Development known as Agenda 21. This executive order shows that the government is planning to take full control of food, fiber and energy. They also intend to fully control economic growth, health care and education. Also from The Blaze:
The new White House Rural Council will probably be populated by experts in the various fields that might prove helpful to the folks who live and work outside of large urban areas, right? Well, Tom Vilsack, the current Secretary of Agriculture, will chair the group, but let us review the list of members appointed to serve on this new council – according to the order, the heads of the following groups have been appointed:
■(1) the Department of the Treasury; Timothy Geithner
■(2) the Department of Defense; Robert Gates
■(3) the Department of Justice; Eric Holder
■(4) the Department of the Interior; Ken Salazar
■(5) the Department of Commerce; Gary Locke
■(6) the Department of Labor; Hilda Solis
■(7) the Department of Health and Human Services; Kathleen Sebelius
■(8) the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Shaun Donovan
■(9) the Department of Transportation; Ray LaHood
■(10) the Department of Energy; Dr. Steven Chu
■(11) the Department of Education; Arne Duncan
■(12) the Department of Veterans Affairs; Eric Shinseki
■(13) the Department of Homeland Security; Janet Napolitano
■(14) the Environmental Protection Agency; Lisa Jackson
■(15) the Federal Communications Commission; Michael Copps
■(16) the Office of Management and Budget; Peter Orszag
■(17) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; John Holdren
■(18) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; R. Gil Kerlikowske
■(19) the Council of Economic Advisers; Austan Goolsbee
■(20) the Domestic Policy Council; Melody Barnes (former VP at Center for American Progress)
■(21) the National Economic Council; Gene B. Sperling
■(22) the Small Business Administration; Karen Mills
■(23) the Council on Environmental Quality; Nancy Sutley
■(24) the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs; Valerie Jarrett
■(25) the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs; and such other executive branch departments, agencies, and offices as the President or Secretary of Agriculture may, from time to time, designate. Chris Lu (or virtually anyone to be designated by the 24 people named above)
It appears that not a single department in the federal government was excluded from the new White House Rural Council, and the wild card option in number 25 gives the president and the agriculture secretary the option to designate anyone to serve on this powerful council.”
See Video & Read More Here: “AGENDA 21 FOR DUMMIES”
http://jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com/2011/06/executive-order-13575-fascist-stealth.html
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http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/June-2011/Expert-Defense-Lawyer-Blago-Has-Grounds-for-Retrial/
“IS THE FBI INVESTIGATING OBAMA?”
By Cliff Kincaid
Accuracy In Media
June 22, 2011
Hat Tip: Erica At Jefferson Rebels: http://jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com/2011/06/is-fbi-investigating-obama.html
Excerpt:
“In a front page story about a major FBI terrorism investigation, The Washington Post has reported that the targets include “Chicagoans who crossed paths with Obama when he was a young state senator and some who have been active in labor unions that supported his political rise.” The implication is that the trail could lead to the White House.
This is an unusual investigation that does not primarily involve Islamists. Instead, it is focused on elements of the old international communist networks that many people mistakenly thought had faded away with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Those under investigation are suspected of providing support to foreign terrorist organizations such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the Middle East, a Marxist group. The Post called them “Colombian and Palestinian groups designated by the U.S. government as terrorists.”
The investigations came into public view last September when the FBI raided the homes of several “activists,” as the Post called them. Some lived in Chicago.
One of the targets, Tom Burke, was a union organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). He was so confident he would get a fair shake from the Post that he provided the paper with a photo of himself shaking hands with Barack Obama. The other apparent intention was to send a message to the President and Attorney General Eric Holder that any investigation of Burke might lead to Obama.
The Post suggested that investigations of labor union activists might jeopardize their support for Obama’s 2012 presidential run. Indeed, it could therefore threaten his re-election bid, if investigations determine that the activists did more than “cross paths” with the President.
Deep inside the article, in the 29th paragraph, we find out that some of the “activists” are associated with a group known as the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), a Marxist-Leninist organization. Burke is a member of the FRSO, which the Post admitted was “far left.”
The obvious question is why Obama, as a state senator in Illinois, would ever have “crossed paths” with such people. The answer goes beyond just union support for the candidate. The “far-left” networks that include the FRSO, the Communist Party USA, the New American Movement, and the Democratic Socialists of America backed and even spawned Obama’s political career. Don’t forget that Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn hosted a fundraiser for his first run for political office. The same networks also backed CIA Director Leon Panetta’s career when he was a congressman from Santa Cruz, California. This helps explain why Obama would pick Panetta, with no intelligence background, to run the intelligence agency. They are cut from the same cloth.
Nevertheless, on Tuesday, the Senate voted 100-0 in favor of Panetta’s nomination as Secretary of Defense. It was a classic case of “head in the sand” politics, ignoring not only Panetta’s long-time relationship with Communist Party member Hugh DeLacy but his record as a congressman in undercutting then-President Reagan’s pro-defense policies at every turn.
Obama and Panetta were players in the “progressive” community, which since the days of Henry Wallace, presidential candidate of the Progressive Party, has had a red tint. Obama had his own communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party member under FBI investigation for 19 years, while Panetta gave DeLacy, who had traveled to China to meet with Soviet and Chinese intelligence agents, sensitive reports on U.S. military matters. Any notion that Panetta had no awareness of DeLacy’s Communist affiliation was obliterated when Panetta in 1983 inserted a tribute to DeLacy into the Congressional Record, praising his resistance to “McCarthyism.”
Former FBI agent Max Noel once told me that the Bureau used to investigate candidates for federal employment by analyzing Character, Associates, Reputation, and Loyalty to the United States. The first letters in those words make up the acronym CARL. By the standard of “A”—Associates—Panetta flunks. But so does Obama.”
Read More Here:
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/is-the-fbi-investigating-obama/
CW, The guy in the pink shirt on WGN does not know his ass from a hole in the ground. He’s a shill for Fitz.
Thank you Mr. Wells!!
I have been listening to the coverage that you gave to us here:
“citizenwells | June 27, 2011 at 1:12 pm | WGN-TV live stream of Blagojevich heading to court:”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/videobeta/?watchLive=wgntv-tivid-livestream-95
VICTORY!!!!!!!!
Not victory, Starla. There are missing defendents who should have been found guilty with Blago. Rahm Emanuel,, Barry Soteoro, Fitzgerald. Judge Zagel, Tony Rezko (even tho he is sitting in jail now) and others. Blago is simply their straw man–even tho is is guilty–he is the least culpable of the gang. This takes the pressure off Soebarkha.
With 2012 just around the corner, the pressure in any and all ways must be put on the WH Fraud. He must not be permitted to run on the basis he is not elibibile and every state S.O.S must be forewarned of the consequences if he/she fails to properly vet the imposter.
This realy is a sad day for America! The crooks got away with it again.
The usurper has committed all the same crimes as listed, yet he gets away with it. If Blago has to go to jail for those crimes, so does the usurper. This is getting old and sickening. Bo should be on trial. They shouldn’t be protecting him. He is pure evil.
Re: usapatriots-shout | June 27, 2011 at 3:17 pm | Not victory, Starla. There are missing defendents who should have been found guilty with Blago. Rahm Emanuel, Barry Soetoro, Fitzgerald. Judge Zagel, Tony Rezko (even tho he is sitting in jail now) and others. Blago is simply their straw man–even tho is is guilty–he is the least culpable of the gang. This takes the pressure off Soebarkha.
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Yes it is a victory that Blagojevich got convicted for the crimes he committed. Yes, it is a sad day in America when the other people who committed many felonies, & many high crimes with him were not indicted & they get to still walk around free today!! Do you think Blagojevich will come forth to turn in more information on Rahm Emanuel, Barry Soetoro, Fitzgerald, Judge Zagel, & Tony Rezko & others to demand that all of the people who committed crimes with him must also be held publicly accountable for their crimes to We The People, in order for him to receive a lighter prison sentence from the prosecutors & judge in his case. Blagojevich is looking at sitting in prison for a possible 320 years on his 17 convictions pending his appeal. Now Blagojevich is a convicted felon
with a very, very big mouth. Do you think Rod will sing like a canary on the other people who committed crimes with him, to get a reduced sentence from the prosecutor and judge?
“AGENDA 21′S FEARLESS LEADER HATES AMERCA”
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/agenda-21s-fearless-leader-hates-america/
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“AGENDA 21- EDUCATION FROM UNESCO – THE INSECT SOCIETY”
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/agenda-21-education-from-unesco-the-insect-society/
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“REDEVELOPMENT: THE UNKNOWN GOVERNMENT”
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/redevelopment-the-unknown-government/
Please send this FAR and WIDE..they are EVIL! Spooky dude at it again…
http://gulagbound.com/17158/look-whos-buying-up-flood-ravaged-farm-land/
“A NOTE TO ROD BLAGOJEVICH”
By Lame Cherry
June 27, 2011
Excerpt:
“This allows you time to start becoming the star witness against Barack Hussein Obama in his crimes, as you “flip” for the prosecution to cut a deal of time already served and an expose book deal on Obama.
Given time if you join the coup, Mr. Obama will be such a pariah, that sympathy will be generated in 2013 so that anyone giving you a pardon will be viewed as compassionate as no husband deserves prison when Obama raped America.
If you just would have sent Patty out, brought your children in to the court to rush your table a few times in bawling and crying out, “Daddy why is Mr. Obama destroying you for his crimes!!!!”, you would be once again out on a hung jury.
Wife like that, cute kids, and your lawyer doesn’t even use them to save you.
The Clintons will save you………but boy you better finger this out that you had better come out with the gay stuff on Obama, the crimes, the sleaze, the rumors……….you better crucify him or Obama is going to stuff you so far into the black hole, your wife will be signing her name, Mrs. Petroleum Jelly.”
Read More Here: http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2011/06/note-to-rod-blagojevich.html
“DEPRAVED HYPOCRISY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW: ARREST WARRANT FOR GADDAFI BUT NOT AHMADINEJAD?”
By Pamela Geller
June 27, 2011
Excerpt:
“International law is whose law? Who is next? Who is next? George Bush? Ahmadinejad did far worse to his people when they marched for free elections in 2009. His regime was then awarded the vice-presidency of the UN General Assembly.
International law is Islamic law. Americans do not adhere to international law. This must be the platform of our next American president, once this fraud is thrown out.
This entire Libya issue is a disaster for American foreign policy — whatever that is, as no one seems to know.
He is destroying America one move at a time.”
Read More Here: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/depraved-hypocrisy-of-international-law-arrest-warrant-for-gadafi-but-not-ahmadinejad.html
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“AFGHANISTAN: BRUTAL BEHEADINGS, ISLAMIC BARBARISM ADVANCES AHEAD OF OBAMA’S WITHDRAWAL PLAN”
By Pamela Geller
June 27, 2011
Excerpt:
“Muslims warn the west — Christians will be decimated when the coalition leaves Afghanistan.”
“Brutal Beheading World News
AFGHANISTAN | Afghan terror advances ahead of President Obama’s pullout plan | Mindy Belz”
Read More Here: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/afghanistan-brutal-beheadings-islamic-barbarism-advances-ahead-of-president-obamas-withdrawal-plan.html