Five years after his release from prison, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich still isn’t letting go of his conviction—and he now wants retribution.

Perhaps the most telling moment of the news conference Rod Blagojevich held hours after President Donald Trump granted the disgraced ex-Illinois governor a full pardon came even before he answered ...

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, five years after commuting his 14-year sentence for political corruption charges. Blagojevich, a former ...

Blagojevich, who was a Democrat while in office, supported Trump in the 2024 election and attended last July's GOP Convention.

Blagojevich was convicted on corruption charges for trying to sell a Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. Trump commuted the former governor's sentence in 2020.

President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full and unconditional pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced former governor of Illinois who was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011 ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Monday evening — and publicly suggested he would nominate the disgraced Democrat to be US ambassador to Serbia.

Former Republican Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate campaign finance law, was ...

Blagojevich declined to discuss speculation that Trump was considering appointing him as the next U.S. ambassador to Serbia. He said his father came from Serbia and that in recently visiting the ...

By Julie Bosman President Trump signed a full pardon on Monday for Rod R. Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois who was convicted of corruption in 2011 in a scheme to sell a ...