Illinois after Blagojevich

Illinois after Blagojevich

Fitzgerald was right: The feds need your help to defeat the culture of sleaze.



3:27 p.m. CDT, June 27, 2011

"Today's verdict proves that no one is above the law. And just as important, it proves that government is supposed to exist for the good of the people, not the other way around, and certainly not for the personal enrichment of those who hold public office."

— Then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, April 17, 2006, on the corruption conviction of former Gov. George Ryan.

The temptation now, with yet another ex-governor fearing his march to federal prison, is to move on and murmur, "Enough about him." Five years ago, serial criminal Rod Blagojevich -- as if to spare everyone work after his own eventual conviction -- synthesized what 12 jurors had just told his predecessor: Even in chronically corrupt Illinois, government doesn't exist for the personal enrichment of ? you.

Until the rest of us start showing as much courage as our jurors do, though, that sweet piety will remain unpreachable heresy in Illinois' sanctuaries of power.
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Now that Blago has fallen, will the U.S. Attorney prosecute the real serial criminals; the crooked judges, GALs and  attorneys who populate the corrupt Probate Court of Cook County?  U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald; make your first case Judge Lynne Kawamoto, who allowed a severally mentally disabled person to be the guardian of a helpless disabled 99 year old great-grandmother.  Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, Probate Sharks.