US President Donald Trump pardoned the former Governor of the State Illinios Rod Blagjevich on Mondaywho was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption in 2011. TASR reports according to AP.
Currently, the 68-year-old democratic exguiner dismissed from office in 2009 and two hands later condemned On the basis of allegations that he tried to sell or replace the chair in the Senate, which was released after the victory of Barack Obama in the presidential election of 2008.
From the originally 14-year imprisonment, Blagjevich served in prison for eight years. Trump shortened his sentence during his first term of office in 2020.
On Monday in an oval office where the grace signed, he said that Blagojevich became the victim of “terrible injustice”. “It is a pleasure. I think it’s a very good person. This wasn’t supposed to happen to him, “ said the Republican White House boss.
BLAGOJEVICH SAGE According to Reuters describes the victim of politically motivated prosecution by the federal authorities. Trump had previously made some sympathy when he appeared in Trump’s TV reality in 2010 Celebrity Apprentice.
Blagojevich’s longtime lawyer Shelly Sorosky on Monday described the possibility of granting grace as something they were interested in for some time. She described Blagojevich and Trump as people who have a “good, friendly relationship”. On the contrary, Trump said he didn’t know him very much.
