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Prosecutors Ask For Extension In Blagojevich Probe

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Dec 31, 2008 10:57 am US/Central

Prosecutors Ask For Extension In Blagojevich Probe

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald Wants 90-Day Extension For Indictment

CHICAGO (AP) ― U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has filed a motion seeking a 90-day extension to return of an indictment against Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Federal prosecutors normally have 30 days to file an indictment against a defendant. That deadline would have been Jan. 7, and the extension would give prosecutors until April 7 instead.

Authorities arrested Blagojevich on Dec. 9 on corruption charges that accuse him of trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder.

Blagojevich has denied any wrongdoing.

In the motion filed Wednesday, prosecutors ask for more time because "multiple witnesses" have come forward in recent weeks and investigators have to review "thousands of intercepted phone calls."

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