Posted on 04/20/2010 8:22:51 PM PDT by STARWISE
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BLAGOJEVICH: PROSECUTORS ARE "COWARDS AND THEY ARE LIARS"
In a news conference outside his lawyers' South Side office, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich outright asked for a showdown with U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. Blagojevich said he would go to court tomorrow and he hoped Fitzgerald "was man enough to be there too." He called federal prosecutors "cowards and liars," for "hitting below the belt" and lodging allegations against his wife, Patti, last week as well as for opposing his playing all the secret FBI tapes in court.
"They're now hitting below the belt and attacking my wife," Rod Blagojevich said of allegations last week that his wife, whom he referred to as "a licensed professional" was essentially a ghost pay-roller for convicted political fixer Tony Rezko. Blagojevich spoke directly to Patrick Fitzgerald, essentially challenging the U.S. Attorney to show up to the courthouse tomorrow and talk about playing all the tapes.
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Blagojevich's remarks, broadcast live on at least three TV channels, come after federal prosecutors made public last week a key document in the case, revealing that some of the former governor's closest friends have been talking to prosecutors for months.
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I challenge Mr. Fitzgerald. Why don't you show up in court tomorrow and explain to everybody, say to the whole world why you don't want those tapes that you made played in court.
I'll be in court tomorrow, I hope you're man enough to be there tomorrow, too."
There is a previously scheduled court status in the case tomorrow at noon.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys who are trying the case will be there. Fitzgerald isn't expected to be.
Blagojevich's comments were forceful but brief. He took no questions.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
~~What will Fitzie do ..... PING!
Who is the bigger sleazebag, Fitzgerald? Or Blago?
Ping.
Blago - If you have them, play them. The internet is a wonderful thing.
play the tapes, play the tapes!!!
Excerpts from the transcript:
Fitzgerald: "In the governor's words -- governor's words, quote, 'Fire all those bleeping people. Get them the bleep out of there. And get us some editorial support', close quote. And the bleeps are not really bleeps."
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Fitzgerald: "A month or so ago a $1.8 billion tollway project was announced. While that tollway project was being announced, Governor Blagojevich was privately seeking to have a person benefiting from that contract raise $100,000 in contributions, and privately the government (sic) said, 'I could have made a larger announcement but wanted to see how they would perform by the end of the year. If they don't perform, bleep 'em.' That's a quote. And the word 'bleep' was not the word he used."
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Fitzgerald: "The governor's own words describing the Senate seat, quote, 'It's a bleeping valuable thing -- thing. You just don't give it away for nothing', close quote."
Fitzgerald: "Another quote, 'I've got this thing, and it's bleeping golden. And I'm just not giving it up for bleeping nothing. I'm not going to do it, and I can always use it; I can parachute me there,' quote. Those are his words, not our characterization, other than with regard to the bleep."
Fitzgerald: "The tapes reveal that Governor Blagojevich wanted a number of things in exchange for making the appointment to the Senate seat -- an appointment as secretary of health and human services or an ambassadorship, an appointment to a private foundation, a higher paying job for his wife or campaign contributions."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/politics/09text-illinois.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
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Blago's wife...
"Mrs. Blago, the former Patti Mell, won the hearts of old-school thugs everywhere with her f-word-filled rants captured on FBI wiretaps, some of which were colorfully detailed in the criminal complaint against her hubby..." --Michelle Malkin, December 17, 2008
http://710knus.townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2008/12/17/the_real_housewives_of_crook_county
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Fitzgerald shames his name, his faith, his nationality, his profession, and the human race every time he wakes up..
Don’t forget: Blago’s father in law is Dick Mell, Mayor Daley’s hatchet man in the Chicago city council.
Daley and Mell sent Blago to Springfield to be Chicago’s loyal lap dog. Except Rod (and his wife) were too ambitious, they didn’t want to fiddle for crumbs when the rest of the orchestra— the Illinois demcrats— were eating lobster.
What ensued was an unprecedented war of words in the press between Mell and Blago— and exchanged threats from each to air the others’ dirty laundry.
Blago is an idiot, that’s plain. But he knows plenty, and he’s not going to go quietly.
I predict that the response will be that he can elect to have any specific bit that would exonerate him shown...but he won't go for that either and then claim he had an unfair trial.
Blago is right, US Attorney’s are cowards, liars and political hacks.
Unfortunately Blago is an absolute scum and makes them look good.
Best post of the day,.... , well, maybe hour.
Sounds like the little gangster is going after the bigger gangster. As for WHO is mentioned in those withheld tapes...how many guesses do I get? :)
The FBI was compiling data against Blago during the election. I’ll wager that there are tapes which substantiate that Blago met with Obama the day of the election. The natural topic of conversation would have been how to fill Obama’s Senate seat.
This meeting was denied by Obama during the following January. Remember that there was an online news story talking about the meeting prior to its occurrence and referring to it after wards.
After Obama claimed he had not met with Blago, Rush mentioned the news article on the air. The breathtaking part was that the news organization, something about “Tri States” and affiliated with one of the majors, scrubbed the site of both stories. Google was scrubbed of the web page which was referenced by Rush. The other one, stayed on Google, where some of us captured it, for about a week.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Democrats still eating their own and we get to watch.
yeah blago has the goods,on obama and rahm it will end in one of three ways.
Blago walks
Blago rats
Blago dies
of course if blago rats, he probably dies...
Agree. Why not play the tapes?
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