Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his wife, Patti, address the hoard of media at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on Dec. 6, 2011, after the former governor was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a convicted felon who spent eight years in federal prison, is going to court to be able to get his name back on the ballot.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich makes his way through a crowd following his State of the State address at the Illinois State Capitol Wednesday, March 7, 2007, in Springfield, Ill. Delivering a ...

Nearly five years after commuting former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s federal prison sentence, President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full pardon to the disgraced former governor who was convicted ...

Blagojevich, 68, has never applied for a pension and has not asked for a refund of the $101,000 he contributed during his years as a state lawmaker and governor, Blair said.

Sentence Commuted: Almost 8 years into a 14 year prison sentence, former IL Governor Rod Blagojevich's sentence is commuted by ⁦@POTUS⁩ . Expected to be released today.

Trump pardons former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich: 'He was set up by a lot of bad people' Trump previously commuted Blagojevich's 14-year sentence on political corruption charges in 2020.

Rod Blagojevich: Trump commutes 14-year sentence of former Illinois Gov. Blagojevich amid blitz of pardons "I didn’t do the things they said I did," the former governor told WGN-TV as he arrived ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, with his wife Patti at his side, speaks to the media in Chicago before reporting to federal prison in Denver, March 14, 2012. M. Spencer Green/AP.

Disgraced ex-Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he’s a proud turncoat who backs former Republican President Donald Trump’s comeback for the White House. “I call myself a ‘Trump ...

Chanting “si, se puede!” — yes, we can — then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich joined 200 or so laid-off workers inside their recently shuttered factory on Goose Island.

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.