Tribune Cubs sale consultant in Blagojevich emails
AP: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. "A sports consultant helping Tribune Co. with a potential Wrigley Field sale said in an e-mail to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's top aide that the
- results of the presidential election had put "the opportunities we discussed"
- in front of Blagojevich, The Associated Press has learned.
- "Now that the election has gone as we expected,
- the opportunities we discussed,
- and Rod and I talked even more about, are in front of you guys," Ganis wrote in one of two dozen e-mail exchanges between Ganis and Harris
- "I was going to call the Gov today to get together to continue the discussion you had us start. ... There is a real possibility these next two years could be very different than the last two for you guys.
- An opportunity that this election may have presented."...
- Ganis told the AP in January that his contact with Blagojevich's office was limited to discussions about the Cubs.
- Tribune's interest in an Illinois Finance Authority deal on Wrigley of $100 million or more in tax relief that prosecutors claim Blagojevich and Harris were dangling.
- Ganis, president of Sportscorp Ltd. in Chicago, wanted to help make "Rod's voice" heard on an
- Olympics committee and sought a meeting with Harris to pitch a business proposition, according to the e-mails.
- Signing off with, "Miss ya, buddy!" Ganis encouraged Harris on Sept. 11 to see that Blagojevich
- got control of an appointment to any committee formed to lure the Olympics to Chicago in 2016, saying he could "help a lot and also watch out for things and be Rod's (hopefully credible) voice."
- sought to discuss with Harris a "wind power" business,
- bragged that his cousin is tight with Stephen Spielberg and offered Blagojevich and Harris a "direct pipeline" to the Hollywood director."...via Editor & Publisher
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