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> Can you send the url for this story?
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> Joanne Landy
> At 10:06 AM 12/9/2008 -0500, you wrote:
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>> 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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