CHICAGO — Prosecutors described the ousted Illinois governor accused of trying to auction President Barack Obama's vacated senate seat as a greedy shakedown artist desperate for money.
"The governor of Illinois was shaking people down," prosecutor Christopher Niewoehner said in opening statements of Rod Blagojevich's retrial on corruption charges.
"The governor of Illinois is not allowed to enrich himself by using his power. It's that simple."
Prosecutors broke down the former governor's case into five shakedown schemes, telling a mostly female jury that he was motivated by his lack of money -- in late 2008 he was $200,000 in debt.
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