Blagojevich had appeared on Trump’s reality TV show, “Celebrity Apprentice," in 2010 while awaiting trial. The Supreme Court in 2018 rejected a bid by Blagojevich to get his sentence reduced ...

US President Donald Trump pardoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat who served eight years in prison in a corruption case. Earlier also, his sentence was cut short by Trump during ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks to reporters before entering his home in Ravenswood Monday. President Donald Trump pardoned the former governor Monday. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share ...

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 ...

Blagojevich’s full press conference can be viewed in the video embedded at the bottom of this article. CHICAGO (WGN) — Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich held a press conference Monday ...

Blagojevich, 68, has never applied for a pension and has not asked for a refund of the $101,000 he contributed during his years as a state lawmaker and governor, Blair said. Blagojevich, however ...

(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) US President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois. Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on ...

President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full pardon to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted on 18 corruption counts, including for his attempt to sell President-elect Barack ...

Throughout Rod Blagojevich’s race against my late mother, Judy Baar Topinka, for the post of Illinois governor in 2005, campaign advertisements would state, “What is she thinking?” ...

Former President Donald Trump has issued a complete pardon to Rod Blagojevich, who previously served as the Democratic governor of Illinois. Blagojevich received his conviction in 2011 for several ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is one of the latest people to receive a pardon from President Donald Trump. This comes five years after Trump commuted the governor’s 14-year sentence in 2020.

“One thing everyone can agree on is that Rod is, was, an excellent campaigner, and he campaigned hard for this part.” Just as Blagojevich’s governorship will have an asterisk — the first governor in ...