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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Chicago – 19 February 2020
++NIGHT SHOT++
1. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, followed by crowd of reporters, quickly walks up stairs into home
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Chicago – 19 February 2020
2. Various of Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and family coming out waving to supporters, shaking hands as he makes way down to press conference
3. Cutaway of "Thanks Mr. President" sign in front of home
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rod Blagojevich, Former Illinois Governor:
"Now, as for me, obviously I’ve got ten thousand reasons to be thankful to President Trump. I’m obviously thankful, to be home, get my freedom back, to just be able to hold my wife’s hand. But most of all, I’m thankful to you, Mr. President, for giving my daughters their father back."
++EDIT ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump on Monday will pardon Democratic former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to a person familiar with his plans.
Trump commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence for political corruption charges during his first term. He planned to sign the pardon on Monday afternoon, according to the person, who was not authorized to discuss the pardon publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Blagojevich was convicted on charges that included seeking to sell an appointment to then-President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children’s hospital.
Blagojevich, who appeared on Trump’s reality TV show “Celebrity Apprentice,” was convicted in 2011. He served eight years before Trump, a Republican, cut short his term.
The intended pardon during Trump’s fourth week in office follows clemency that Trump granted on his first day back to the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. The move paved the way for the release from prison of people found guilty of violent attacks on police as well as leaders of far-right extremist groups convicted of failed plots to keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden.
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