Man who brought down Blagojevich is high-profile scalper

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Patrick Fitzgerald's impressive record includes Gambino crime brothers, Sheikh Rahman, Conrad Black and Scooter LibbyMark Tran

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday December 10 2008 12.16 GMT


With his latest high-profile scalp, Patrick Fitzgerald's stature as a federal prosecutor is outstripping that of Eliot Ness, the federal agent who brought down Al Capone.

Fitzgerald, living up to his reputation as America's toughest prosecutor, has just landed Rod Blagojevich, the governor of Illinois, who has been charged effectively with trying to sell Barack Obama's senate seat.

The son of Irish immigrants, Fitzgerald has been involved in some of America's biggest cases in recent history. Among the trials he prosecuted were those of John and Joseph Gambino, brothers who had risen to the top of the infamous crime family run by John Gotti, and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who planned to blow up numerous New York landmarks. He also built the first criminal case against Osama bin Laden, indicting him in 1998 on charges that included the African embassy bombings.

Fitzgerald also secured the fraud conviction of the disgraced Daily Telegraph chairman, Conrad Black, as he had the misfortune to run a company operating in Chicago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/10/barackobama-congress

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1. Interesting - there are many things on DU today about hiding the news

from U.S. citizens by U.S. news companies.

Even today, some of the best insight comes from the Guardian, Asian Times, Al Jazeera - independent organizatiions who gather the news like the Vets who let us know what is going on with our military, most especially the treatment of vets. Then, there are our bloggers who find and editorialize amazing finds and stay around to help and share in the analysis.

By this Republican administration hiding the news, the news found a light and escaped.

This Republican administration with help from Dems who are poor at investigating at times and have exceeded the need to be patriotic to Republicans has tried nazism, fascism, totalianarism, dictatorship in their approach to news.

What they left is a joke and an embarassment.

If the news in this country improves - one year from now (and especially five years from now) we are going to look at those imbedded (meaning strictly controlled and programmed) journalists who accompanied the troops at the whim and wham of the Pentagon and White House - as a joke and a pitiful crew.

Thanks Guardian for bringing us news and your take that our own press can't do because they are all occupied with propaganda .... answering the phone from the P and the WH and RNC and AIPAC and Heritage Foundation telling them what to say and promote. Talking points ponied express.