Former Governor Rod Blagojevich has agreed to appear on "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here." The show will be filmed in a Costa Rican jungle and is set to air on NBC on June 1. The show will pay the financially strapped governor $80,000 a week.
The problem is, Blagojevich is will need permission from U.S. District Judge James Zagel to leave the country. He currently faces conviction of 16 counts of criminal counts of racketeering, conspiracy and wire fraud.
Two things came to mind when reading this story in the Chicago Tribune.
The first is that I don't think Blago is very money smart. If his entire political career was spent trying to make himself richer by selling appointments, collecting bribes and extorting contributions, it appears he either should have asked fore more, or been smarter with his dirty money. The man should have spent a weekend watching old gangster movies. Maybe read an Al Capone book? Either that, or maybe he should have just plead guilty. I am no lawyer, but I have a feeling that it is hard to win a case where the prosecution has audio recordings of the defendant committing the crimes of which he is accused.
The second thing is that if this show is structured like Survivor, Blagojevich should be pretty good at it. Let's see, the point of Survivor is to be underhanded and sneaky, to make and break promises, to outwit, outplay, outlast.
Seems to me, Blagojevich has been winning that game for the last 20 years.
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