Obama Citizenship

Fitzgerald Seeks 90-day Extension on Blagojevich

By Phil

Per RedState.com (via the WashingtonTimes), United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has filed a motion to seek a 90-day extension to return an indictment against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich:

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has filed a motion seeking a 90-day extension to return of an indictment against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Federal prosecutors normally have 30 days to file an indictment against a defendant. That deadline would have been Jan. 7, and the extension would give prosecutors until April 7 instead?

In the motion filed Wednesday, prosecutors ask for more time because ?multiple witnesses? have come forward in recent weeks and investigators have to review ?thousands of intercepted phone calls.?

A U.S. Attorney spokesman says a federal judge is scheduled to review the motion at a Monday hearing.

Consider this: no US Attorney is going to go after a high-profile political individual unless that attorney is Really, Really Sure Of The Stuff About To Hit The Fan(tm) (read: the individual in question has basically already established a history of having done whatever it is that they’re being accused of doing).

Does that mean that Fitzgerald doesn’t have enough with which to go after the Governor? I think it’s quite the contrary. If I may be a little melodramatic about this, I think that this is the tip of the iceberg.

Oh, this cannot be good for any Democrat at this stage; maybe not even for Barack Hussein Obama.

By the way, CitizenWells has been doing a phenomenal job tracking Fitzgerald’s work; some of it is featured here on this page.

-Phil

Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on December 31, 2008 (boomark / email).