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Those who break the code will be "morally responsible to society, fellow officers and their conscience," reads the code, but they could also lose their job or face criminal charges - a nod to the ongoing anticorruption campaign championed by President Dmitri Medvedev.
"I actually think that the children's hospital charge would worry me even more," says Andrea Lyon, a law professor at DePaul University and former head of the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "Holding up sick children and the doctors caring for them seems like an emotional matter that...
But prosecutors got another benefit from tying the case with Cellini's. One of Blagojevich's attorneys, Terence Gillespie, also happens to be representing Cellini. Because of the conflict of interest, Gillespie had to step down from the former governor's defense team. That made him the second high-profile...
But the charges themselves are, if anything, more damning. The indictment against Blagojevich, his older brother Robert and four associates, which includes charges of racketeering conspiracy, extortion conspiracy, attempted extortion, making false statements and wire fraud, effectively paints the impeached ex-governor as the head of a vast criminal enterprise...
Blagojevich's defense has a daunting task, especially given that some co-defendants as well as a host of other politically connected officials are reportedly lining up to cooperate with the government. Still, Blagojevich maintained to reporters after Tuesday's hearing, "I did not let the people of Illinois down...