Auctioned Blagojevich Items Included Attorney-Client Papers
A librarian at Rod Blagojevich’s alma mater, Northwestern University, says he has found confidential attorney-client papers in 18 boxes of files, photos and videotapes he purchased in an auction.
Librarian Jeffrey Garrett tells the Associated Press that the confidential files were from Blagojevich’s days as a practicing lawyer. Garrett bought the files for Northwestern libraries from a moving and storage company that auctioned Blagojevich’s stored merchandise after he failed to pay his bills.
Blagojevich, who has an inactive law license, worked as a prosecutor for two years in the 1980s, mostly in traffic court, the story says. His publicist, Glenn Selig, told AP Blagojevich didn’t know what was in the files and wasn’t aware he owed money to the storage facility until he saw an invoice in July.
Another auctioned item, a six-foot-tall Elvis statue, sold for $20,500, the Chicago Tribune reports.
