Blagojevich Panel Declines to Subpoena 2 Obama Aides

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Blagojevich Panel Declines to Subpoena 2 Obama Aides

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 27, 2008


CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois House committee considering the removal of Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich has rejected a request from the governor’s lawyer to subpoena two top advisers to President-elect Barack Obama, the committee’s chairwoman said Saturday.

The United States attorney in Chicago, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, asked the committee in a letter on Friday not to subpoena the two advisers, Rahm Emanuel, who will be Mr. Obama’s chief of staff, and Valerie Jarrett. Mr. Fitzgerald also asked that Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Democrat of Illinois, and Nils Larsen, an executive vice president of the Tribune Company, not be called to testify.

Any such subpoenas, Mr. Fitzgerald said, would interfere with the criminal investigation into the activities of Mr. Blagojevich and others. A lawyer for Mr. Blagojevich, Edward Genson, had asked the committee earlier in the week to issue the subpoenas.

“We’re not interested in undercutting the U.S. attorney’s criminal investigation,” the chairwoman, State Representative Barbara Flynn Currie, a Chicago Democrat, said on Saturday.

Mr. Genson did not immediately respond Saturday to a telephone call requesting comment.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/us/politics/28illinois.html

[Kittycat]

1. Good. We cannot get rid of Blago fast enough.

Fucking ass is crapping up my slowly turning blue county. All the pukes are coming out of the woodwork, frothing at the mouth over this.