Blagojevich spokesman responds to comments from Lisa Madigan

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(PR NewsChannel) / August 24, 2010 / CHICAGO / The following is a statement from Glenn Selig, spokesman for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, in response to comments by Attorney General Lisa Madigan in which she calls the governor "a liar."

STATEMENT:

"Former Gov. Blagojevich never said he talked directly with Lisa Madigan or her father Mike Madigan about his intentions to name her a U.S. Senator.  The fact is Gov. Blagojevich was working through President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emamuel, U.S. Senators Harry Reid and Robert Menendez and Congressman Jerry Costello to reach out to Mike Madigan to broker a deal that in exchange for appointing Madigan's daughter to the U.S. Senate, Madigan would pass a public works bill he had been holding up that would create jobs, he would expand health care coverage and he would sign a written memorandum of understanding not to raise taxes. Taped recordings about that deal were presented at trial. 

"Lisa Madigan is flat out lying when she says she has not spoken to Blagojevich in ‘more years than I can count on one hand.’  Lisa Madigan spoke with Gov. Blagojevich as recently as the 2008 Democratic National Convention on the convention floor to ask him to spare the budget for the Attorney General's office. 

"I would also urge you to challenge her to tell you what she remembers about a visit she made with her father to the governor’s campaign office on Sunday, January 14, 2006 at 2:00pm seeking two and a half percent of the governor’s campaign funds which amounted to $396,491.25 to use against Alexi Giannoulias who at that time was running for state treasurer.  She came to the very campaign office she made the subject of an investigation a year earlier.  She listened as her father asked the governor to tap into his campaign fund.

"You should also ask both Madigans whether they were interviewed by the FBI about the U.S. Senate appointment and if the FBI asked them who approached them about the Senate seat and what answer, if any, they gave the FBI.

"If they choose not to answer those questions, they may have an opportunity to do so at the second trial because the governor says both of them will be subpoenaed to testify about their respective roles in choosing President Obama’s successor.”

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