Trump pardons former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich: 'He was set up by a lot of bad people'
President Donald Trump is expected to pardon former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Fox News has learned. Blagojevich, a former "Celebrity Apprentice" contestant, served eight years in prison on charges stemming from his effort to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat after Obama won the 2008 presidential election.
Blagojevich was convicted on corruption charges for trying to sell a Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. Trump commuted the former governor's sentence in 2020.
The former governor of Illinois, whose corruption conviction sentence Trump commuted, chaired a group called Serbians for ...
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