• one the number of charges that Blago is guilty of (lying to federal invesigators)
• 23 the number of charges that the jury can’t agree he’s guilty of (yay deadlocks!)
• five the number of years Blago could go to prison for that one charge alone source

• » What does this mean? Two things. First, Blago isn’t off the hook just yet. Stuart Slotnick, a criminal defense attorney specializing in white collar crimes, suggests that the verdict is simply a safeguard to ensure more consideration for the other, more complex charges he’s facing.

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