WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will be freed.
President Trump has announced that he will commute the 14-year prison sentence of the former governor who was convicted of trying to sell President Barack Obama’s Senate seat for personal gain once Obama was elected president.
The New York Times reports Trump said will free Blagojevich without wiping his conviction clean.
Illinois’ Republican delegation wrote a letter to the president advising him not to commute the sentence, saying Blagojevich’s crime “epitomizes the corruption that he said he wanted to tackle as president.”
