Blagojevich fundraiser dies of possible drug overdose

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE58C1KD20090913

Christopher Kelly, a businessman and chief campaign fundraiser for the former governor, died at a local hospital on Saturday and police are investigating his death as a possible suicide or homicide, Dwight Welch, the mayor of suburban Country Club Hills, Illinois, told Reuters.

[trainer6]

I don't know. From what was in the article it sounds like suicide rather than homicide. The timing of it also tends to lean to suicide.

[Hey Paula]

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE58C1KD20090913

I heard about this yesterday and it was reported as a suicide (asprin overdose) because Kelly told someone he would go to his grave with secrets. Some believe he was being pressured to turn State's evidence against Blago. Reportedly, Kelly called someone and told them he had taken an overdose.

Blago said David Axelrod had once approached him about running for president. LOL, he also said he'd like BO and MO to testify at his trial, and mentioned Tony Rezko's name in connection with them.

I can't wait for Blago's trial and to see and hear how it's played out. I think they all have a whole bunch of dirt on one another. But Blago is at a distinct disadvantage running up against such powerful forces.

IMO

[Kylee'sGamma]

Sounds like a suicide. If so, what a coward.

imo

I totally agree

[trainer6]

I heard about this yesterday and it was reported as a suicide (asprin overdose) because Kelly told someone he would go to his grave with secrets. Some believe he was being pressured to turn State's evidence against Blago. Reportedly, Kelly called someone and told them he had taken an overdose.

Blago said David Axelrod had once approached him about running for president. LOL, he also said he'd like BO and MO to testify at his trial, and mentioned Tony Rezko's name in connection with them.

I can't wait for Blago's trial and to see and hear how it's played out. I think they all have a whole bunch of dirt on one another. But Blago is at a distinct disadvantage running up against such powerful forces.

IMO

You're right, especially because he doesn't have political power anymore. I'm sure they know the secrets he has and have tried to put a lid on them.

Just when you think he is gone, he pops back up again.

[MercedesV]

On Tuesday in a separate case, Kelly pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud "as part of a kickback scheme to illegally obtain $8.5 million in work at O'Hare International Airport," the Chicago Tribune reported Saturday in story about his death on the newspaper's Web site.

"At the time, Kelly, 51, said he was under pressure from federal prosecutors to cooperate in their investigation of Blagojevich, but he refused," the Tribune reported.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/12/blagojevich.fundraiser.dead/index.html

[CANDYKISSES]

Probe into Ill. fundraiser's death looks at drugs

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hYQDQxn1tJkXsVGlosXaRLo8L-qAD9AMSD080

I don't know onions, I am having flashbacks of yet another senseless death after a scandal the last time the dems were leading the charge. Vince Foster comes to mind, but alas we may never know.....:sad: JMO

http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/FOSTER_COVERUP/foster.html

[desmom]

Our local news is reporting he had a mattress and several pictures of his children in a trailer at the lumberyard. They also reported he took pills and possibly rat poison.

Looking for a link.

jmo

ETA http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/09/christopher-kelly-may-have-taken-rat-poison.html

http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-chris-kelly-rat-poison-september15,0,7535941.story

[desmom]

Police: Kelly tried to commit suicide earlier
http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x1021282965/Police-to-give-details-in-Blagojevich-fundraisers-death