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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The ex-governor said he and the president were victims of 'lawfare' and didn't address rumors that he's being considered for ...

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, five years after commuting his ...

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

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

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.

Blagojevich, who appeared on Trump's reality TV show, "Celebrity Apprentice," was convicted on political corruption charges ...

Trump's decision to commute Blagojevich's sentence was met with bipartisan criticism in Illinois. Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker ...