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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

(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... Read full story »

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