Rod Blagojevich was defiant when he spoke to the press after being convicted on just one of 24 counts in his federal corruption trial Tuesday.
“We have a prosecutor who wasted and wanted to spend tens of millions of dollars,” Blagojevich said of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. “The government did not prove its case. We didn’t even put a defense on and the government didn’t prove its case.”
Blagojevich referred to the count on which he was found guilty, of lying to the FBI, as “one nebulous charge from five years ago.”
“I did not lie to the FBI,” Blagojevich said.
The former governor was cheered when he left the Dirksen Federal Building and told a Spanish television television station “No culpable” [Not guilty].
Rod Blagojevich, August, 17, 2010 from Chicago News Cooperative on Vimeo.
With contributions from Mick Dumke, Jose More and Ben Goldberger