Federal investigators also allege the two were trying to have Chicago Tribune editorialboardmembers fired by leveraging state assistance to the parent company of the newspaper, the Tribune Company, in its sale of Wrigley Field.
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Blagojevich allegedly directed Harris to tell Tribune officials that state assistance would be withheld unless members of the newspaper's editorialboard were fired.
At the Journal of Monetary Economics, every single member of the editorialboard is or has been affiliated with the Fed and 14 of the 26 boardmembers are presently on the Fed payroll.