Blagojevich Says Heâs An âF-ing Jerkâ Under Oath

Testifying at his corruption retrial, past Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich offered perhaps the most faithful statement of himself meet transactions after taking the stand for the prototypal time: “I am an f-ing movement and I apologize.”

The disgraced leader rambled most his youth, Little League baseball, the struggles of his Slav immigrant family and his childhood job as a footgear shiner. He also mentioned that story inspires him and obstructed up most the death of his parents, who incidentally he claims hit helped him from heaven.

It was an manifest effort to get jurors over, though hour showed some signs of compassion and digit reporter exclusive the room observed a panellist “extremely annoyed” by every the individualized history. Blagojevich has been charged with 20 felonies, including trying to sell President Obama’s older senate seat. Jurors deadlocked on every but digit calculate (lying to the FBI) at his prototypal effort last summer, but Blagojevich never testified so his attendance has been anxiously anticipated.

There was uncertainty the impeached two-term controller would actually take the stand up until the time he was bound in. "I would favour to be somewhere else," Blagojevich told jurors, adding that he was in suite to tell the actuality after a 2 ½-year wait. Now he feels “very liberated.”

Proceedings module juice up next week (no effort on Fridays) when the defense softball questions conclude and prosecutors take in. As it did last summer, Judicial Watch module cover the effort springy in Chicago.

JW has daylong investigated widespread corruption in the Blagojevich Administration. In 2006 Blagojevich refused a JW public records request for subpoenas relating to the federal probe of his duty and in 2007 JW filed an open records causa in Cook County Court to obtain them. In 2009 JW obtained open records that prove Obama and Blagojevich had repeated contact after Obama became president even though the White House has vehemently denied it.