Blagojevich Wants "Missing" Phone Calls Recovered

[WestVirginiaRebel]

nbcchicago.com:

Rod Blagojevich says there is a missing undercover tape which can prove his innocence. And his lawyers have filed a motion in federal court, asking the government to produce it.

The former governor’s lawyers say the tape in question documents a conversation between Rahm Emanuel and John Harris, who was Blagojevich’s chief of staff. The motion says the purported missing call, if it exists, would prove that Blagojevich had no intention of selling Barack Obama’s vacant senate seat.

To be certain, the evidence of such a phone call is purely circumstantial. In their filing, the attorneys note that a report issued by the Obama transition team found that "between the time Mr. Emanuel decided to accept the position of Chief of Staff in the White House, and December 8, 2008, Mr. Emanuel had about four telephone conversations with John Harris, Chief of Staff to the Governor, on the subject of the Senate seat."

They argue that the government has only tendered three of those conversations.

"The fourth and final phone call is the call that is mysteriously missing," writes defense attorney Lauren Kaesberg. "The government never turned over this pivotal recording, nor a transcript of this call."
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