Fresh off one of the 'under-prosecutions of the century', Fitzgerald has been on the radar screen, since his blustering about on camera seemed to come quite a bit too early, given the events following the unfolding of his "case" against Gov. Blago...
Now, some of the backstory, in a moment of relative calm:
We might see the idea suggested by the Times op-eds—that Fitzgerald compromised his own prosecution to sound an alarm—as the path not taken by the hordes of local reporters much less interested in legal nuance than political drama. But Cam Simpson, a former Tribune reporter working for the Wall Street Journal, followed the path to an intriguing conclusion. In a piece the paper published on Monday, he wrote that the case against Blagojevich was compromised not by Fitzgerald but by the Tribune, with its December 5 front-page story “Trib exclusive: Feds taped Blagojevich.” This was “according to people close to the investigation and a careful reading of the FBI’s affidavit in the case.”
There is more, including his wife as Lady McBeth ...
Yellow...very yellow.
