Cashing out: Money at the root of Blagojevich’s rise and fall (The Pantagraph)

CHICAGO -- Money got Rod Blagojevich elected, and in the end it ruined his political career. The affable showman with the Elvis Presley hair and John Wayne swagger reveled in his rags-to-riches story: the son of working-class immigrants rising to become Illinois governor.

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