Case 08-CR-1010 Session 459

        CASE NUMBER:              08 CR 1010 PHONE:                   Lobbyist 1 Cellular SESSION:                 459  Redacted Transcript DATE:                    12/03/2008 TIME:                    4:11 p.m.

SPEAKERS:                BLAGOJEVICH= Rod Blagojevich Lobbyist 1 UF = Unidentified female

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1                                (PHONE RINGING)

2      UF                        Friends of Blagojevich.

3      LOBBYIST 1                Hey, it's Lon.

4      UF                        Hey Lon. Hold on, one second.

5      LOBBYIST 1                Is, is Rod there?

6      UF                        Yeah, they're both here. Hold on.

7      LOBBYIST 1                Okay.

8      BLAGOJEVICH:              Hey, Lon.

9      LOBBYIST 1                Hey. So. I'm just leaving there, um and I talked 10                                to him about (UI) commitment. He goes... I said, 11                                "Two separate conversations. What about your 12                                 commitment?" He goes, "Lon, I have to leave in two 13                                weeks, and I'm gonna be gone for two weeks. 14                                 I know that I have to have this in your hand by 15                                 the end of those two weeks." And I said, "Look, 16                                there's a concern that there's gonna be some 17                                 skittishness if your bill gets signed because of 18                                 the timeliness of the commitment." He said, 19                                "Absolutely not.  I mean do you want me to put 20                                 some into the next quarter." I said, "No. That's 21                                 not my point.  My point is this has all gotta be 22                                 in now." He goes, "I'm gonna have, I hope I'm 23                                gonna have it next week, but you have my 24                                 commitment.  I've always been there.  I'm gonna be 25                                 there.  I've gotta have it in the next two weeks 26                                 cause I'm going out of town.

27      BLAGOJEVICH:              Good. Um.

28      LOBBYIST 1                And it...(stutter)and the reason it took so long

1                                was is that Billy came in and started talking 2                                about George Steinbrenner and not about the bill 3                                so much, but just about his illness and all that, 4                                and I didn't want to have that conversation in  5                                 front of Billy. 6 7       BLAGOJEVICH:              Ya, I know. Good job. Hey, um [PORTIONS REDACTED]

8      BLAGOJEVICH:                      [PORTIONS REDACTED]

9           (Call ends.)