Topic: Patrick Fitzgerald
Prosecutors defend strongly worded comments in announcing charges against Illinois governorFederal prosecutors fired back Thursday at defense claims that U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald's comments at a news conference were so strongly worded that he should be taken off the fraud case ...
Ill. gov's lawyers ask court to take US attorney off case, say news conference was prejudicialGov. Rod Blagojevich's defense attorneys urged a federal judge Thursday to remove Chicago's top federal prosecutor and all of his assistants from the fraud and bribery case ...