CHICAGO — Rod Blagojevich hid in the bathroom, ducked into a back room and left the office early to avoid discussing complex issues with his budget director, his former deputy said Thursday at the ousted governor’s corruption trial.
Blagojevich worked in the office less than nine hours a week and had trouble focusing on legislation, former Deputy Gov. Robert Greenlee said in testimony that portrayed the governor as disengaged in the affairs of his state.
His testimony came as prosecutors announced they probably would rest their case Tuesday, and as Blagojevich was heard on an FBI wiretap tape saying he would get “tangible political support” if he named U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to the Senate seat Barack Obama was leaving to become president.
