Former Illinois Gov. Blagojevich, freed from prison Tuesday, heaped 'profound and everlasting gratitude' on President Trump for commuting his sentence.
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Blagojevich, who said he was planning a news conference Wednesday, said he was looking forward to returning home to his family. He said he had no warning or advance notice or inkling that his sentence would be commuted Tuesday, and that other inmates saw it on the news and told him."It’s also racist, and I saw how it affects people of color," Blagojevich said, citing what he said were cases of non-violent first-time drug offenders made to do decades in prison for mistakes that they made.
Blagojevich, who maintains his innocence, said he plans to fight against a system"that all too often persecutes and prosecutes people who did nothing wrong, who over-sentence people, who show no mercy.
Between his trials, he tried to rehabilitate his image and signed up as a contestant on"The Celebrity Apprentice." He was"fired" after four episodes after bungling
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