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Did Rahm Tip Off the Feds?

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Chicago Fox reporter suggests he might have.

Here’s the most intriguing theory so far from Rod Blagojevich saga. Several websites are reporting that Jack Conaty, a Chicago TV news reporter, said today: “We did receive a tip this morning that perhaps all of this came together so quickly because the governor may have reached out to Rahm Emanuel, the president-elect’s chief of staff, in attempting to leverage filling the Senate seat. And it may have been Rahm Emanuel who tipped the scale and made this move as quickly as it did.” Blagojevich and Emanuel both held the same U.S. House seat in Illinois.

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