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    Blagojevich, unrepentant but bruised, reflects on prison life

    by By Jeff Coen, Chicago Tribune Sep 12, 2017 4 minutes

    Federal inmate 40892-424 has his voice back.

    More than five years after he went to prison for corruption, disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is speaking out for the first time since beginning his sentence.

    Details of Blagojevich's first prison interview were published online late Monday by Chicago magazine and will appear in its October issue, done in a series of phone calls and emails over the summer with writer David Bernstein. NBC-Ch. 5 in Chicago also aired an interview with Blagojevich on its newscast Monday night.

    The interviews paint a picture of a former governor who remains unrepentant and unbowed,

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