Blagojevich allegedly directed Harris to tell Tribune officials that state assistance would be withheld unless members of the newspaper's editorial board were fired.

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At the Journal of Monetary Economics, every single member of the editorial board is or has been affiliated with the Fed and 14 of the 26 board members are presently on the Fed payroll.

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Investigators say he tried to use state funds to persuade the Tribune Company to fire Chicago Tribune editorial board members critical of him.

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Acupuncture in Medicine has all the trappings of a real journal, including an editorial board whose members work at respectable medical schools.

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Federal investigators also allege the two were trying to have Chicago Tribune editorial board members 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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