An Illinois commission has recommended that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich lose his law license over his corrupt dealings while in office.
Attorneys with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission argued in front of the body last week to recommend stripping Blagojevich of his law license. The Democratic ex-governor was recently released from prison after President Trump commuted Blagojevich’s sentence eight years into a 14-year incarceration.
The commission decided on Tuesday to recommend to the Illinois State Bar that the body strip Blagojevich of his law license and bar him from practicing law, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on corruption charges for attempting to extort campaign donations from a children’s hospital and for attempting to sell President Barack Obama’s Senate seat.
President Trump commuted Blagojevich’s prison sentence on Feb. 18 after hinting at the decision for months. The move earned Trump effusive praise from Blagojevich, who began calling himself a “Trumpocrat.”
“Yes, we commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich. He served eight years in jail, a long time. He seems like a very nice person. Don’t know him,” Trump said at the time. Blagojevich met the president in 2010 while appearing on the ninth season of Trump’s NBC reality television show The Celebrity Apprentice.
