Sam Adam Jr. has an explanation for why Rod Blagojevich spent $400,000 on clothes over the course of six years: “Because he is a politician,” the attorney said.
Following the lunch break, Adam continued his closing argument by imploring the jury, as he did in his opening statement, to “following the money.”
“But don’t follow it the way they want you to follow it,” Adam said. “Don’t follow it halfway through. Follow it all the way.”
The government spent 52 minutes, according to Adam’s calculations, going through Blagojevich’s expenses. And they proved, according to Adam, that Blagojevich paid for his belongings out of his own pocket, “not that Tony Rezko went over there and paid for his suits.”
“He didn’t even take it out of the FOB. He paid for it himself,” Adam said, referring to the Friends of Blagojevich campaign fund.
And the kicker?
“The number one expenditure that the IRS didn’t tell you about, is that he paid IRS a half a million dollars to the IRS,” said Adam.