> Illinois governor arrested for trying to sell Obama's senate seat
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>6 minutes ago
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>CHICAGO (AFP) — The governor of Illinois was arrested Tuesday for
>conspiring to sell an appointment to president-elect Barack Obama's
>recently open US senate seat, prosecutors said.
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>Governor Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were also
>accused of threatening to withhold state assistance to the Tribune Company
>in connection with the sale of iconic baseball stadium Wrigley Field to
>"induce purge of newspaper editorial writers," the US attorney's office
>said in a statement.
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