Black Man Indicted in Blago Case
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A black man, identified as Jesse Jackson, Jr., has been indicted in connection to the attempt to sell the US Senate seat recently vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. With a black man behind bars, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been exonerated of all charges.
Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald told reporters that the break in the case came while reviewing countless hours of audio tape collected from electronic surveillance of the governor’s home and office.
“Mr. Jackson mentioned in a phone conversation with Governor Blagojevich that he had been eating at Harold’s,” said Mr. Fitzgerald during Thursday’s news conference. “After determining that ‘Harold’s’ did not refer to the home of Litchfield Councilman Harold Ellinger, Jr.,” Mr. Fitzgerald explained, ”we discovered that it is the name of a restaurant chain which sells fried chicken and pork tips.”
“That’s when we knew there was a black man involved,” Fitzgerald concluded.
Unidentified sources close to the investigation revealed that federal agents were in the process of scouring Jackson’s home and office in search of drugs, guns, prostitutes, and hip-hop albums. In the meantime, the black man was arraigned in federal court, with sentencing scheduled for next week.
Governor Blagojevich stepped out of his office to greet a throng of cheering fans after the announcement of Jackson’s arrest. “With these ridiculous charges behind me, I can go back to diligently serving the citizen’s of Illinois by [bleeping] with the state pension fund and closing those [bleeping] state parks.”
