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Friday, April 26
Before splitting with a lifetime supply of stolen office supplies this afternoon in Springfield, Rod Blagojevich pardoned past battery- and drug-related convictions of a janitor he met last fall at a homeless shelter, and also expunged a forgery and deception charge against a real estate developer.