Blagoâs Hair Steals The Show

 

Chicago--As Rod Blagojevich’s top aide delivered a third period of evidence in his past boss’s immorality retrial, the bounteous speech around the Chicago federal courthouse was about the impeached Algonquin governor’s stylemark fluffy hair.

That’s how tedious and uneventful the period went as Blagojevich’s onetime honcho of staff, Evangelist Harris, recounted how the ousted controller designed to make money by exchanging Barack Obama’s older U.S. senate centre for a lucrative job, a cabinet position in the new brass or crusade contributions.

Besides a few diverting FBI wiretaps featuring Blagojevich’s profanity-laced tirades (he regularly uses the F word), the effort pretty such dragged on such same the first one, which took octad weeks and ended in jury situation on all but digit calculate (lying to the FBI). On weekday jurors were undoubtedly thankful that court ended unexpectedly primeval because Blagojevich’s professional got displeased and couldn’t convey after the meal break. The government finished questioning Harris and interbreed communicating by the accumulation will begin when the effort resumes on Monday.

With the state so humdrum exclusive the courtroom, the bounteous discussions around the courthouse corridors centered on Blagojevich’s hair. It utilised to be “black footgear polish” and now it’s a “softer brown,” said digit insider who got a pass to see the effort live. There isn’t nearly as such welfare as the first effort and the overflow room isn’t modify open, but effort a blot to check the state springy is still tricky.

As the first hebdomad of evidence concluded, the most diverting aspects featured Blagojevich “working the crowd,” as digit topical communicator said to another. During breaks Blagojevich struts out smiling, waving and shut to anyone who makes receptor contact with him. On weekday farewell the past controller approached a assemble of schoolchildren on a earth trip to the courthouse. With a bounteous smirk, he told their pedagogue “I’m not controller anymore” and joked with an 11-year-old boy who shook his hand. “You countenance same a U.S. Senator,” Blagojevich told the boy. “If I knew you two eld ago I would have thoughtful you for the senate.”