WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors in the Justice Department section that handles public corruption cases have been told the unit ...

Former Republican Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate campaign finance law, was ...

Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy wants a pardon from President Donald Trump. And why not? Isn't everybody these days?

The Justice Department’s public integrity section, which handles corruption cases against government officials, is set to be ...

Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks to reporters before entering his home in Ravenswood Monday. President Donald Trump pardoned the former governor Monday. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share ...

Five years after his release from prison, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich still isn’t letting go of his conviction—and ...

Perhaps the most telling moment of the news conference Rod Blagojevich held hours after President Donald Trump granted the disgraced ex-Illinois governor a full pardon came even before he answered ...

FILE - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich tries to get into his house as he arrives home in Chicago, Feb. 19, 2020, after his release from Colorado prison late Tuesday. (AP Photo/Charles Rex ...

SPRINGFIELD — Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich only received one vote in his defense when he was impeached by the Illinois House and removed from office by the Senate in 2009 following his indictment ...