In week three of the reality show “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!,” Patti Blagojevich continued using her appearance as an opportunity to present her defense.
Patti and Rod Blagojevich (Getty Images)
The wife of indicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) started off with the standard, “In politics you develop enemies, and they’re out to hurt you and hurt your reputation.” Then she argued she can’t go to jail because she has kids. Then she said maybe U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald would be so aggravated by her appearance on the reality show that he’d try to pack her off to prision anyway.
Said Patti, according to the Chicago Sun Times:
“Are you aggravating the U.S. attorney, and then they indict me too? You know it’s coming in about a year… ‘We’re going to indict your wife unless you come plead guilty.’ It’s like, yeah, well go ahead and do it then. You gonna make our kids orphans?”
There is no justice, she said. “They squeeze people to say things that aren’t true. It’s a terrible thing. They get people that have done things wrong and they tell them, ‘Would you be comfortable saying this?’”
Well, you certainly don’t want to aggravate Patrick Fitzgerald.
Rod Blagojevich was the first Democrat to be elected Governor of Illinois since Daniel Walker.Rod Blagojevich, disgraced Illinois governor, who was arrested for corruption and for being involved in a conspiracy to commit mail fraud, has just had his trial concluded. Two weeks of deliberation left the grand jury giving a single guilty verdict out to him. One count of lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation was given to Blagojevich. There hasn’t been sentencing yet, although five years could be given because of the false statements the government received from him. Already there is a plan in action to re-try Blagojevich by Federal prosecutors.