{"id":10082,"date":"2008-12-10T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T17:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/patrick_fitzgerald_the_breadth_of_corruption_laid_out_in_these_charges_is_s\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T17:03:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T17:03:26","slug":"patrick_fitzgerald_the_breadth_of_corruption_laid_out_in_these_charges_is_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10082","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Fitzgerald: \u201cThe breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering\u201d\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a news conference hours later, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said the corruption charges against Blagojevich represent \u201ca truly new low\u201d\u009d and \u201cwould make Lincoln roll over in his grave.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a sad day for government,\u201d\u009d he said at a news conference with federal prosecutors to discuss the arrest of Blagojevich. \u201cGov. Blagojevich has taken us to a truly new low.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Patrick] Fitzgerald called Blagojevich&#8217;s actions in the last several weeks as \u201ca political corruption crime spree.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The head of the FBI office in Chicago said if Illinois isn\u2019t the most corrupt state in the United States, it\u2019s a strong competitor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/blagojevich\/1321300,rod-blagojevich-illinois-governor-custody-120908.article\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a news conference hours later, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said the corruption charges against Blagojevich represent \u201ca truly new low\u201d\u009d and \u201cwould make Lincoln roll over in his grave.\u201d\u009d \u201cThis is a sad day for government,\u201d\u009d he said at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10082\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,114,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}