Rod Blagojevich

LISTEN: Blago Says 'I've Got This Thing And It's F*cking Golden' (AUDIO)

Eric Lach | July 1, 2010, 1:56PM

Former IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich

Prosecutors in the Rod Blagojevich trial have released some classic audio of a recorded conversation between the former Illinois governor and Doug Scofield, a political advisor and former deputy governor, from the day after Barack Obama won the Presidential election.

In a candid conversation, Blagojevich and Scofield discussed the governor's strategy for filling the vacant Senate seat, and the governor utters the now-infamous phrase: "I've got this thing and it's fucking golden."

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