You've read the highlights, but how about an at-a-glance look at the government's official complaint against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich?
The official complaint, which can be read here is a 78-page pdf file, an enjoyable but daunting read. To help you out I've transformed the complaint into a word cloud using the system over at Wordle.net, to show you the most commonly used words, names and places in the complaint, organized in an artful fashion.
A visual guide to the case against Rod Blagojevich.
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29 weeks 4 days ago
Well done...
I'm surprised of the frequency of both "Tribune" and "Rezko," both of which I've heard in all the mainstream accounts, but hadn't thought they would be reiterated throughout the complaint.
28 weeks 5 days ago
Man this guy was a true piece of work. I cannot or can really believe that someone could be so corrupt.
29 weeks 4 days ago
Rezko's mentioned 147 times in the complaint.
Here's the rest of the words and their frequencies:
a.m,3
ability,4
able,8
about,65
above,4
absent,1
abuse,1
accelerate,1
accelerating,1
accept,5
accepting,1
access,2
accommodate,1
Accommodation,5
accomplish,1
accomplished,1
According,43
Accordingly,1
account,5
accounts,5
accumulate,1
acknowledge,1
acknowledged,2
ACPA,1
acquired,1
acquisition,2
act,3
acted,1
Acting,1
action,6
actions,7
active,1
actively,1
activities,4
activity,6
acts,4
Actually,1
add,1
added,1
addition,12
additional,6
address,1
administration,16
Administrative,1
administrators,1
admitted,4
advance,1
advanced,1
advantage,3
advice,1
advised,10
adviser,1
Advisor,87
advisors,4
Advisor’s,2
advocacy,1
advocate,2
advocating,1
affecting,1
Affiant,1
AFFIDAVIT,12
affiliated,5
affirmative,1
affirmatively,1
afford,1
after,25
again,12
against,5
agencies,1
agency,3
agenda,2
Agent,9
agents,11
ago,2
agree,1
agreed,22
agreeing,3
agreement,18
ahead,1
aid,1
ain’t,1
airplane,1
Al,3
Ali,2
all,13
allegations,4
alleged,1
allocation,11
allow,1
allowed,1
allows,2
Almanaseer,17
almost,1
alone,1
already,3
Alright,1
also,18
alternatively,1
although,2
always,3
am,7
ambassadorship,2
ambassadorships,1
AMERICA,1
American,1
among,11
amount,2
amounts,2
an,64
analogized,1
analysis,2
and,543
and/or,2
announced,2
announcement,3
another,10
Antoin,3
any,15
anymore,2
anything,14
AO,1
apparent,1
appears,3
applicable,2
APPLICATION,5
applications,3
appoint,8
appointed,7
appointees,1
appointing,6
appointment,10
appointments,2
appoints,2
appraisals,1
appreciation,1
approach,3
approached,2
approval,3
approve,1
approved,3
approximately,22
April,2
are,42
arena,1
argue,1
arguments,2
arose,1
around,7
arrange,2
arranged,1
arrangement,3
arrest,3
arrived,1
Article,3
articles,4
as,105
ask,11
asked,45
asking,4
asks,1
asset,1
assets,2
assigned,2
assist,5
assistance,13
assistant,1
assisted,1
associate,5
associated,3
associates,2
Association,4
associations,1
assume,1
assuming,1
assured,3
at,85
Ata,57
Ata’s,7
ATTACHED,3
attempt,2
attempted,11
attempting,4
attended,3
attendees,1
attention,1
attorney,4
attributes,1
audit,1
Auditor,1
August,3
AUSAs,1
Authority,12
authorization,1
authorized,3
authorizing,4
available,3
Avenue,2
avoid,4
awaiting,1
award,2
aware,4
away,4
A’s,2
B,38
back,10
backed,1
background,4
bad,4
balance,1
banking,1
bargain,1
base,1
baseball,3
based,18
basic,1
basically,2
basis,1
be,130
became,3
Because,29
Beck,16
been,22
before,19
began,7
Beginning,9
behalf,5
being,13
belief,2
believe,3
believed,25
believes,2
below,12
benefit,8
benefits,11
best,1
better,9
between,5
beyond,1
biased,1
bids,1
big,5
bill,9
billion,4
billions,2
BLAGOJEVICH,555
BLAGOJEVICH.13,1
BLAGOJEVICH.20,1
BLAGOJEVICH’s,47
board,63
boards,18
body,1
both,3
bought,1
bounced,1
bribe,2
bribery,2
bribes,2
broach,1
broad,1
brought,4
budget,1
budgetary,1
buffer,1
Buffett,4
build,5
Builders,1
building,3
built,1
Bureau,4
business,20
businesses,1
businessman,3
but,39
by,92
B’s,2
c,30
cabinet,2
Cain,3
call,55
called,5
calling,4
calls,15
came,1
campaign,44
can,34
candidate,65
candidates,4
cannot,2
can’t,2
capacity,1
Capital,8
Capri,12
Capri’s,2
captured,1
care,4
career,1
careful,2
Cari,45
Cari’s,8
CARRIE,1
carry,1
carrying,1
Case,4
cases,1
casino,1
cause,10
causes,1
CD,2
Cellini,45
Cellini’s,2
centered,1
certain,23
certainly,1
Certificate,1
chair,1
chairman,3
challenge,1
challenged,1
chance,1
change,22
changed,1
changes,5
changing,1
charged,1
charging,1
charitable,1
check,11
checked,2
Chicago,34
Chicago-area,2
chief,7
Children’s,4
choice,1
choices,1
chosen,1
CHRIS,5
chronology,1
circumstances,1
Citizens,1
City,3
clarification,2
clear,5
close,5
CNN,1
co-schemer,1
coal,1
cocaine,1
Code,11
collar,2
column,2
columnist,4
combination,1
come,2
coming,3
comment,1
commented,1
commission,1
commissions,1
commit,2
commitment,4
committed,2
committee,3
committing,1
common,1
commonly,1
communicate,5
communicated,1
communications,18
companies,1
Company,21
Company’s,1
comparison,1
complainant,1
Complaint,6
complete,4
completed,1
completely,1
completing,1
comprehensive,1
Comptroller,1
computer,1
CON,19
CON.10,1
concern,1
concerned,4
concerning,10
concerns,2
concert,1
CONCLUSION,1
concrete,2
condition,2
conduct,4
conducted,2
conducting,1
conference,5
conferred,1
confirmed,10
Congressional,2
connected,2
connection,14
CONs,3
consensually-recorded,1
consider,3
considerable,1
consideration,3
considerations,1
considered,2
considering,3
consisted,1
consistent,1
consistently,1
consolidate,3
consolidating,1
consolidation,8
conspire,1
conspired,3
conspiring,4
Constitution,1
construction,2
consultant,9
consultants,6
consulting,2
contacts,3
contained,2
containing,1
contemplated,1
contemplating,3
context,1
Continued,10
continues,1
continuing,4
contractor,16
contractors,1
contracts,9
contribute,2
contributed,1
contributing,2
contribution,15
contributions,29
Contributor,11
contributors,4
Control,8
controlled,1
controlling,1
controversial,1
conversation,51
conversations,30
conviction,1
convictions,1
convince,1
Cook,3
cooperate,1
cooperating,1
cooperation,9
copy,1
corporate,9
corporation,1
correct,3
corresponding,2
corroborate,2
corroborated,2
corrupt,7
corruption,4
corruptly,7
cost,1
could,40
counsel,8
Count,4
counts,3
County,3
course,5
COURT,6
court-authorized,2
courtauthorized,1
CR,5
create,2
created,3
credibility,1
credit,1
credited,1
crew,1
crime,1
crimes,4
Criminal,23
criteria,2
critical,10
criticizing,1
Cross,2
crossed,1
crystal,1
Cubs,17
current,3
currently,3
curtail,1
cut,2
cuts,5
d,15
D.C,2
D.C.-based,3
Daniel,3
database,2
Date,3
dates,1
David,1
day,9
days,3
deal,17
dealing,2
deals,1
debt,3
December,19
decide,1
decision,4
decisions,2
declined,1
Defendant,4
defendants,4
defense,2
defraud,5
defrauding,2
delicate,3
demanded,3
demanding,2
Democratic,3
demonstrate,1
demonstrates,1
denies,2
dentist,1
Department,2
departure,1
dependent,2
Deputy,39
derailed,1
derived,2
described,13
description,1
designated,1
desire,3
detail,5
detailed,4
details,3
determine,2
determined,1
determining,1
developed,1
Development,4
devise,4
did,18
differ,1
difference,2
differences,1
different,2
differs,1
difficult,1
direct,2
directed,2
directing,1
direction,1
directions,3
directly,5
Director,2
Directors,2
disability,1
disbanding,1
discretion,1
discuss,5
discussed,38
discussing,6
discussion,10
discussions,4
dismiss,1
disservices,1
DISTRICT,7
divided,1
DIVISION,3
do,45
doctors,1
does,9
doesn’t,1
doing,9
DOLIG,1
dollars,9
donate,1
donated,1
donation,5
donations,2
done,6
don’t,10
down,4
downsizing,2
downstate,1
Dr,1
drive,1
driving,1
drugs,1
due,2
duly,2
during,63
duties,2
duty,3
dynamics,1
e,1
e.g,2
each,7
earlier,1
early,3
earmarked,1
easier,2
EASTERN,1
economic,2
ecstasy,1
Ed,1
Editor,1
editorial,26
editorials,13
education,1
effect,6
effective,3
effort,4
efforts,27
either,1
elected,3
election,4
elevating,1
else,4
Elston,1
em,3
embarrassed,1
emissary,2
employ,1
employed,2
employee,1
employees,4
employment,3
end,11
ended,3
endorsement,2
endorsements,1
endorsing,1
Energy,2
enforcement,2
engage,2
engaged,4
engages,1
Engineering,4
enrich,2
entered,2
entities,9
entity,6
envelope,2
essence,2
essentially,1
established,3
ESTABLISHING,1
estate,5
et,4
ethics,2
Eve,1
evening,4
event,10
events,2
eventually,3
every,2
everybody’s,1
everything,2
evidence,8
except,3
excess,5
exchange,29
excited,1
Executive,10
exercise,2
exert,1
existing,3
expect,1
expected,3
expects,1
Expenditure,2
experience,2
explain,1
explained,7
explored,1
expose,1
exposed,1
express,2
expressed,3
extensive,1
extensively,2
extort,2
extorted,1
extortion,16
extortionate,1
extract,1
F,4
face,1
facilitate,1
Facilities,4
facility,1
facing,1
fact,5
facts,3
failed,1
faith,1
false,1
familiar,4
family,10
fantastic,1
favor,2
favorable,1
favored,1
FBI,15
FBI's,1
February,2
federal,11
fee,4
feel,2
feeling,1
fees,3
felony,1
few,2
fewer,1
Field,17
Fifth,3
figure,1
figuring,1
files,1
fill,2
filling,2
final,2
Finance,8
financial,62
financially,4
financing,4
find,4
finder’s,2
fine,2
fingerprints,1
fingers,1
fire,6
fired,1
firing,8
firm,9
firms,6
first,3
fiscal,1
five,2
flag,1
flight,2
focus,1
focused,3
follow,2
followed,1
following,17
following:17,1
follows,5
for,223
forcing,1
formed,1
former,2
forming,1
forth,7
forthcoming,1
forward,2
foster,1
found,1
foundation,4
foundations,3
four,1
fraud,6
fraud.2,1
free,4
frequency,1
friend,2
Friends,28
friendship,1
From,78
front,7
frozen,1
frustration,1
fuck,6
fuckers,1
fuckin,2
fucking,8
full,1
fully,3
function,1
functions,1
fund,18
funding,3
fundraiser,44
fundraising,14
Fundrasier,2
funds,20
further,14
furtherance,3
future,1
g,1
gain,9
gains,1
Gates,1
gave,1
General,5
generate,1
generating,1
get,51
gets,4
getting,10
give,15
given,4
giving,3
Glynn,6
go,16
goes,2
going,29
golden,1
gone,2
gonna,6
good,19
Gore’s,1
got,24
gotta,5
gotten,1
Gov,1
government,33
governmental,1
government’s,2
Governor,82
governors,2
governorship,2
Governor’s,1
grab,1
Grady,1
grand,4
great,2
greater,3
greeted,1
grounds,2
group,2
guideline,1
Guidelines,2
guilty,6
guy,7
guys,5
had,71
had.4,1
half,2
HAMILTON,1
hammerin,1
hand,1
handed,1
happen,1
happening,1
hard,5
hardest,1
HARRIS,137
HARRIS’s,2
has,52
hasn’t,1
have,41
haven’t,1
having,4
He,173
he/she,3
head,8
Health,12
hear,3
heard,7
hearing,1
heart,1
heavily,1
hedge,2
held,6
hello,2
help,26
helped,2
helpful,1
helping,6
her,5
here,3
herein,1
hereinafter,1
hereof,1
hey,2
he’d,1
He’s,4
high,1
high-level,1
high-paying,1
high-ranking,1
higher,1
Highway,13
him,28
himself,10
hire,3
hired,1
his,89
history,5
hold,3
Holderman,3
home,4
homework,1
honest,8
HONORABLE,1
hopes,2
horse,1
Hospital,22
hosted,1
hot,1
hours,1
House,8
how,18
however,5
How’s,1
huh,1
Human,7
hung,1
hurting,2
I,57
idea,15
identifications,2
identified,3
identifies,1
if,48
IFA,24
IFA’s,4
II,1
III,2
ILCS,4
illegal,5
illegally,1
ILLINOIS,127
Illinois.15,1
Imad,1
image,1
immediate,1
immunity,2
impeach,3
impeached,5
impeaching,1
impeachment,10
implement,1
implementation,1
implemented,1
importance,2
important,2
imprisonment,2
improve,1
improvements,1
impulses,2
in,390
incentive,1
incidents,2
inclined,1
include,3
included,4
including,27
increase,1
incriminates,1
indicate,4
indicated,8
indicates,3
indicating,1
indications,1
indicted,3
indictment,3
indictments,1
indirectly,1
individual,68
individuals,19
induce,1
inducing,3
industry,2
influence,11
influenced,4
inform,2
information,31
informed,29
informing,1
infrastructure,1
ingratiate,2
initiation,1
inperson,1
inquire,1
inserted,1
inserting,1
Inspection,1
Inspector,1
instances,1
institutions,1
instructed,6
instructions,1
insure,1
intending,4
intent,2
intercept,2
intercepted,27
intercepting,2
interception,8
interceptions,3
intercepts,3
interest,7
interested,7
interests,3
interferes,1
interfering,1
interim,1
Internal,2
International,1
internet,1
interpretations,1
interstate,4
interviewed,3
interviews,3
into,10
INTRODUCTION,1
invest,3
investigate,1
investigating,2
Investigation,20
investigations,1
investigative,1
investment,12
investments,2
investors,1
involved,6
involvement,5
involves,1
involving,11
irregular,1
irregularity,1
IRS,1
is,163
isn’t,1
issue,11
issued,2
issues,2
it,82
its,21
It’s,10
I’d,1
I’ll,4
I’m,11
I’ve,2
J,2
James,3
January,9
jeopardize,1
JER,7
job,11
jobs,1
JOHN,49
join,1
joined,1
joining,2
Joseph,2
Judge,6
judgment,2
Judicial,2
July,2
June,1
jury,2
just,16
keep,6
keeping,1
Kelly,58
Kelly’s,3
Kennelly,1
kept,1
ketamine,1
kickbacks,2
knew,1
know,16
knowing,1
knowingly,1
knowledge,5
known,4
knows,4
Labor's,1
landline,1
lanes,1
language,3
large,2
larger,1
largest,1
last,3
lasted,1
late,1
later,38
laundering,1
law,13
lawful,1
laws,3
lay,1
layoffs,2
lead,1
leak,2
leaked,1
leaking,1
learned,1
learning,1
least,5
leave,3
leaving,2
led,2
leery,1
left,4
legal,5
legislation,2
legislative,2
legislatively,1
legislator,1
legislature,10
let,3
Let’s,2
level,6
leverage,1
Levine,126
Levine’s,20
license,3
licenses,1
life,3
lightly,1
like,22
liked,3
likely,2
likes,5
limited,2
line,1
lined,1
lines,1
list,9
listed,3
listen,1
listened,1
listening,2
loan,2
lobbying,1
Lobbyist,20
lobbyists,1
locations,1
Lon,1
long,3
long-standing,3
longer,5
look,10
looking,1
Loren,15
lose,1
lot,6
loud,1
low,1
loyal,1
lucrative,1
machinery,1
made,16
Madigan,4
Magistrate,2
mail,3
mails,4
maintain,1
maintained,3
maintaining,1
majority,1
make,34
makes,1
making,8
man,1
manage,1
management,2
manages,1
manipulate,1
manipulated,1
manner,1
many,1
March,2
MASON,2
matter,1
matters,4
Matthew,1
May,14
maybe,3
McCormick,8
me,16
mean,7
means,1
meant,2
media,5
medical,3
meet,4
meeting,18
meetings,3
member,6
members,20
Memorial,5
mentioned,3
Mercy,16
Mercy’s,7
message,8
messages,1
met,6
methamphetamine,1
MICHAEL,5
might,12
Miller,1
million,31
millions,6
mind,1
Minimization,2
minor,1
minutes,1
mission,1
misuse,3
mitigation,1
Monday,1
monetary,1
monetize,1
money,34
monies,1
monitoring,1
Monk,2
month,4
months,2
mood,1
more,17
morning,5
most,6
motherfucker,1
motion,1
move,3
moved,1
moving,1
Mr,1
much,6
multiple,4
municipalities,1
must,1
my,6
myself,2
Name,4
named,3
namely,8
names,3
naming,2
narcotic,1
national,6
nature,1
Navy,1
necessarily,1
Need,6
needed,7
needs,5
negative,1
negotiation,1
neighborhood,1
neither,1
nervous,1
never,2
New,12
newly,1
news,2
newspaper,5
Next,9
NIEWOEHNER,1
nine,1
no,18
non-profit,2
nor,2
North,1
NORTHERN,5
not,82
not-profit,1
notecards,2
noted,11
notes,3
nothing,9
noting,1
November,59
now,18
Now’s,1
number,2
numerous,5
oath,7
obligations,1
observed,1
obtain,30
obtained,14
obtaining,4
obvious,1
occasions,1
occurred,5
occurring,3
October,22
OF,630
off,4
offenses,1
offer,1
offered,4
offering,2
office,19
Officer,4
offices,5
official,26
officials,4
Oh,2
Ok,1
okay,4
on,205
One,23
one-year,3
ongoing,3
only,7
open,19
opening,1
operation,2
operations,1
operatives,1
opportunity,1
opposed,2
option,3
options,1
or,64
oral,6
order,11
orders,1
organization,22
organization’s,1
organized,2
originally,2
other,41
others,26
otherwise,1
our,10
out,21
outside,1
over,18
overseeing,1
owe,1
own,4
owned,2
Owner,30
owners,3
Owner’s,4
owns,1
P,1
p.m,2
page,5
paid,5
paper,2
papers,1
parachute,2
paragraph,2
paragraphs,5
parent,1
parentheses,1
part,17
participate,4
participated,5
participating,1
particular,16
parties,3
pass,1
passed,1
passengers,1
passing,1
past,3
Pavement,1
pay,10
payable,1
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29 weeks 3 days ago
WOW - awesome Citizen! Great work!
26 weeks 5 days ago
Nice work Citizen :)
24 weeks 2 hours ago
Jeez, a daunting complaint indeed. I like the word cloud, though. Very artisitc.
22 weeks 4 days ago
Aside from the guv's corruptness and dispicable "I was wronged attitude", the only thing I can add of note is "Cut that freaking hair, you moron!". Here's a 40-something asshole trying to go beach boy. Give it a cut, long hair!!! Maybe the jail barber can do the job. I hate that ass_ole!
22 weeks 2 days ago
That dude is one power hungry arrogant piece of work. Just that fact that he tried to defend himself when he is so guilty shows the level of his arrogance.
On the radio today I heard him say he was there to stand up for the people of Illinois, when the true fact of the matter is that he only cares about himself, and is trying to save his own butt.
19 weeks 5 days ago
Im thinking that it shouldnt really be a suprise that there are corrupt folks in government, isnt that the backcone of government....power?
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19 weeks 4 days ago
I'm sick and tired about hearing about corrupt politicians. Something needs to be to to stop the corruption in our government.
18 weeks 2 days ago
You've got a very nice and interesting article regarding this OH-SO-CORRUPT government official. Keep up the good work.
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