By RFD Radio/WFMB
SPRINGFIELD – Now that legal channels seem to be closed for ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich to appeal his corruption conviction, his wife took to Fox News to make a direct case for President Donald Trump’s help on a pardon or commutation of his sentence.
Patti Blagojevich told Tucker Carlson on Monday night her husband is in jail for asking for campaign contributions.
“This is so dangerous because it allows the FBI and power-hungry, overzealous prosecutors like Patrick Fitzgerald who prosecuted both my husband and Scooter Libby to go after anyone that they don’t like,” Blagojevich said.
Trump knows Blagojevich through an appearance on his reality TV show, Celebrity Apprentice.
President Trump could either end Blagojevich’s time in prison or grant a full pardon and wipe the former governor’s record clean.
Libby was an adviser to then-Vice President Dick Cheney. Trump pardoned Libby last week after his served prison time for lying to investigators about the release of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.