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CHICAGO - The wide-ranging public corruption probe that led to the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich got its first big break when a grandmother of six walked into a breakfast meeting with shakedown artists wearing an FBI wire.
Pamela Meyer Davis had been trying to win approval from a state health planning board for an expansion of Edward Hospital, the facility she runs in a Chicago suburb, but she realized that the only way to prevail was to retain a politically connected construction company and a specific investment house. Instead of succumbing to those demands, she went to the FBI and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in late 2003 and agreed to secretly record conversations about the project.See the full content of this document
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Hospital Ceo Wore Wire in Ill. Investigation
Her tapes led investigators down a twisted path of corruption that over five years has ensnared a collection of behi...
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