Washington, Feb 11, 2025 (AFP) - Trump pardons former governor jailed for corruption

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2025-02-11

US President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned Rod Blagojevich, a former Illinois governor whose jail sentence for corruption he commuted five years ago during his first term. Democrat Blagojevich was removed from his governor's post in 2009 and later convicted of essentially selling the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama when he won the US presidency in 2008. "It was sort of a terrible injustice. They just went after him, they go after a lot of p......

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