Case 08-CR-1010 Session 512

        CASE NUMBER:              08 CR 1010 PHONE:                   Lobbyist 1 Cellular SESSION:                 512  Redacted Transcript DATE:                    12/04/2008 TIME:                    9:09 p.m.

SPEAKERS:                BLAGOJEVICH = Rod Blagojevich Lobbyist 1

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1                      (Telephone ringing, clears throat)

2      BLAGOJEVICH               Hey Lon.

3      LOBBYIST 1                How are ya?

4      BLAGOJEVICH               Good. [PORTIONS REDACTED]

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6      LOBBYIST 1                Yeah. Ahm, so lemme, ah, so one thing I was 7                                thinking about last night is that um, you ought to  8                                 give, not today, but maybe tomorrow, just give 9                                John Johnston a call. And say, you know, calling 10                                just to say hello, um, you know, I'm working on 11                                 the timing of this thing, but it's gonna get done.

12      BLAGOJEVICH               Okay.

13      LOBBYIST 1                It's.  It's...

14      BLAGOJEVICH               Call him tomorrow?

15      LOBBYIST 1                It's a two, it's a two minute conversation.

16      BLAGOJEVICH               Yeah, happy to do it. Call him tomorrow right?

17      LOBBYIST 1                Yeah.

18      BLAGOJEVICH               Okay. Call Johnny Johnston, or should I call- 19                                have Harris call him?

20      LOBBYIST 1                Ahm...

21      BLAGOJEVICH               I mean you want me to call him directly, I 22                                 will, whatever's the best thing. I'm just a 23                                little bit...

24      LOBBYIST 1                I think it's better if you do it.

1      BLAGOJEVICH               Okay.

2      LOBBYIST 1                For... It's better if you do it just from a 3                                 pressure point of view.

4      BLAGOJEVICH               Yeah, good. I'll call him and say yeah, we'll, 5                                and we want to do an event down sou--, down sou--, 6                                downstate.

7      LOBBYIST 1                Right.

8      BLAGOJEVICH               We wanna do it and hope, hope to do this so we can 9                                get together and start picking some dates to do a 10                                 bill signing? Right?

11      LOBBYIST 1                Okay so what are, what are the chances based on my 12                                 conversation with you yesterday, that this gets 13                                done, next week?

14      BLAGOJEVICH               You know, they're good.

15      LOBBYIST 1                Okay.

16      BLAGOJEVICH               I mean...[Pause]

17      LOBBYIST 1                He's, I'm, I'm telling you, he's gonna be good for 18                                it. I got in his face.

19      BLAGOJEVICH               Okay, good.

20      LOBBYIST 1                (Yawns) alright.

21      BLAGOJEVICH               I know it's...

22      LOBBYIST 1                Huh?

23      BLAGOJEVICH               I feel like there's somebody else who's holding 24                                him back.

25      LOBBYIST 1                No.

26      BLAGOJEVICH               I believe it's Chris.

27      LOBBYIST 1                No, no.

28      BLAGOJEVICH               Well what took, you know a whole year. You know 29                                what I mean? Hey Lon...

1      LOBBYIST 1                No, I don't think he's been talking to Chris...I  2                                 don't think he's been talking to Chris.

3      BLAGOJEVICH               Okay. [PORTIONS REDACTED]

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5                (End of call).