5 Illinois Governors Charged With Corruption This Century

Land of Lincoln? Not so much

By U.S. News Staff

December 10, 2008 RSS Feed Print
  1. Rod Blagojevich (Democrat, 2003-present)—charged with, among other things, conspiring to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat
  2. George Ryan (Republican, 1999-2003)—currently serving a 6½-year sentence in federal prison for fraud
  3. Daniel Walker (Democrat, 1973-1977)—convicted of bank fraud after leaving office
  4. Otto Kerner (Democrat, 1961-1968)—convicted on 17 counts of bribery
  5. Lennington Small (Republican, 1921-1929)—indicted for embezzlement

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Sources: Wall Street Journal, National Governors Association

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birds of a feather flock togather and obama is as guilty as blagoveich is, but the media will protect him as they always do.

gene of IL 10:23AM December 11, 2008

Illinois and President Elect Barrack Obama is being singled out as a state of corruption but if you took a look at other States that have not had such a reputation, could you say that no corruption exist? Well my answer is no way!. All States have some level of corruption that will never be revealed because all of the right people are involved in it. So the question is "Is Illinois really a State that we should look at and admire because it has a Fair and active Justice and Law Enforcement System that by the very number of high profile politicians that have been convicted in the this decade, prove that corruption does not and will not dominate the State of Illinois. Yes, this means that the State of Illinois is going above and beyond in Enforcing the Law, so let's give them credit for leading the nation in high profile arrest and enforcement of the law.

Stevie W. Babers of 2:24PM December 10, 2008

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