Politics & Government
Southland Juror: Blago was 'Manipulative … But the Kind of Guy You'd Sit Down and Have a Drink With'
A Tinley woman who served on the jury for the Blagojevich trial says the politician was charismatic but glaringly guilty.
To Karen Wojcieszak, it was clear pretty early in the that he had "manipulated the situation."
"He was so arrogant," said the 64-year-old resident. "Some of it was very black and white, where you could see he was quite guilty. … Other things, we had to kind of work through as a group."
The on 17 of 20 counts of corruption, including the charge of attempting to sell President Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.
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