According to breaking reports here in Chicago, Rod and Rob Blagojevich have been summoned to court and a verdict will soon be announced in their corruption trial. Odds are good the jury will be hung on several courts, though.
UPDATE: Reporters are saying that a verdict has been reached, and it will be read at 4:15pm Central Time.
UPDATEx2: Blago has been found guilty on count 24, false statement to federal officers. No verdict on any other counts; the jury is hung. Count 24 has a 5-year maximum prison sentence, and most expect the prosecutors to go back and put him on trial again.
But we don't need the words of the jury to know the truth; we have the words of Blago himself. The following poem was created entirely from the words of Rod Blagojevich, taken from the transcripts of the FBI recordings of then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. My only role was to select Rod's most beautiful words. I was not bribed by anyone to create this poem. In light of his conviction, I have changed the title from "Golden" to "Guilty."
Guilty: The Blagojevich Poem
By Rod Blagojevich (with the editing of John K. Wilson)
Something's really fucked up in my head
I'm really in a bad place.
I know my path to be a U.S. senator.
I could be and I could end up still maybe delivering pizzas somewhere.
Maybe that's where my destiny is, right?
And I'm over here fucking.
And maybe there is no upward mobility
But how much more can you do than being governor, right?
She's fuckin' pushin' this Rezko shit on me.
hey thanks for a fuckin',
thanks for the help asshole.
I'm holding a U.S. Senate seat.
Me, I've got the whole thing wrapped around my arms, mine, okay?
I mean I, I've got this thing and it's fucking...golden.
I'm just not giving it up for fucking nothing.
I can always use it and fuckin' parachute me there.
They're not gonna give me anything
if they feel like they can do this and not fuckin' give me anything
under, just some vague assurances or somethin'.
Then I'll fuckin' go Jesse Jr.
(Sighs) 501(c)(4). How's that sound to you?
$10 million dollars, $15 million dollars.
You know $10, $12, $15 million dollars
that shouldn't be that hard for these guys to be able to get.
Put it in Rahm's head that we would like them to help us, you know, fund it.
And then this fucking Rahm's gonna come to me for this,
fuck him.
You know what I mean?
All a one way street with that little asshole,
fuck him.
Let it bubble over the weekend, let him bubble.
Throws that shit at me.
I'm gonna be unavailable.
A fucking president who's all take and no give.
If you do Obama's person, you get nothing for it, absolutely nothing.
You get a president who's selfish and just ditches people, so you get nothing.
There is nothing I coulda done about Obama.
Why not just put my own person in there, who is African American?
And then I'll have somebody who is grateful.
Am, am I being irrational there?
I believe their worst nightmare is me.
And like I fail-, I'm a, like I failed.
I feel like I'm, like I failed.
Like I failed.