The former Illinois governor was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011. He served eight years in prison before ...

US President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois.

Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on charges that included seeking to sell an appointment to then-President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children’s hospital. Blagojevich ...

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.

He was elected to the Illinois state Senate in 1996, then to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and then was elected President in 2008. Obama served two terms and was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Price for ...

Bush and Barack Obama unlikely candidates to form a ... But when the former Illinois state senator won the presidential election in 2008, he and Bush decided to reach not for a belly tap but ...

After weeks of speculation that the most famous marriage in politics was in trouble, Barack Obama posted a fawning ... him working long hours as an Illinois senator, telling him: “This isn ...

The pardon was the latest overture between the president and the former governor, who is still known in Chicago simply as ...

President Donald Trump has pardoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat who served eight years in prison ...