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FBI: Illinois governor tried to sell Obama's seat
CHICAGO - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was roused from bed and arrested yesterday after prosecutors said he was caught on wiretaps audaciously scheming to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat for cash or a plum job for himself in the new administration.
"I've got this thing and it's -- golden," the Democrat said of his authority to appoint Obama's replacement, "and I'm just not giving...
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