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 Blago jevich.
Marc Ganis’ e-mail to Blago jevich chief of staff John Harris on Nov. 6 came as federal prosecutors were closing in on the Democratic governor. Blagojevich was later arrested, impeached and thrown out of office on allegations that included trying to get Chicago Tribune editorial writers fired for criticizing him in return for helping the newspaper’s parent company get a tax benefit on the sale of the iconic ballpark.
Tribune Co. has not been charged with wrongdoing.
“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 obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act.
