--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: <snip> > I don't think they can convict him of anything with > regard to the Senate seat given what's been made > public so far.
Apparently I'm wrong. The charge is that he "schemed to deprive the people of Illinois of the honest services of their governor." Another charge is conspiracy to commit bribery. In neither case does a bribe have to have been consummated for a crime to have been committed.
