CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois House committee considering the removal of Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich has rejected a request from the governor’s lawyer to subpoena two top advisers to President-elect Barack Obama, the committee’s chairwoman said Saturday.
The United States attorney in Chicago, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, asked the committee in a letter on Friday not to subpoena the two advisers, Rahm Emanuel, who will be Mr. Obama’s chief of staff, and Valerie Jarrett. Mr. Fitzgerald also asked that Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Democrat of Illinois, and Nils Larsen, an executive vice president of the Tribune Company, not be called to testify.
Any such subpoenas, Mr. Fitzgerald said, would interfere with the criminal investigation into the activities of Mr. Blagojevich and others. A lawyer for Mr. Blagojevich, Edward Genson, had asked the committee earlier in the week to issue the subpoenas.
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When you have nothing and your guilty to ask for subpoenas you know you can't get. G-Rod's lawyer knows this but it's show time to hang on in hope a deal can be made.
Now the Media will spin/twist this story because the public only want dirt as the GOP wonts to make people think Obama has done something.
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