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Blago's Wife Axed by Charity

Patti Blagojevich paid $100K as fundraiser

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 22, 2009 1:49 AM CST
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(Newser) – The wife of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been fired from her $100,000-a-year job as development director of a Chicago charity that runs a state-of-the-art homeless shelter, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. Patti Blagojevich had been hired to help double the million dollars raised annually by the Christian Industrial League, but her efforts were undermined by her husband's legal woes.

“She did a good job, but the circumstances made it very difficult for her,” said a source on the league’s board.

Patti Blagojevich has lost her charity job.
Patti Blagojevich has lost her charity job.   (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
No more $100,000-a-year charity job for Patti Blagojevich, wife of the embattled Illinois governor.
No more $100,000-a-year charity job for Patti Blagojevich, wife of the embattled Illinois governor.   (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Patti Blagojevich, wife of the embattled Illinois governor, has been fired from her $100,000-a-year charity job.
Patti Blagojevich, wife of the embattled Illinois governor, has been fired from her $100,000-a-year charity job.   (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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riffran
Jan 23, 2009 5:19 AM CST
Gee thanks "hubby".......Yippie yi Ohhhhhh......cow PATTI......I bet we will soon see ya in divorce court there blaggo.....
Newser001
Jan 21, 2009 8:49 PM CST
Pandering for more and more, Blago shot himself in the foot...

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