Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, appears at a news conference on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, in Chicago after former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Blagojevich's 18 convictions included allegations of trying to leverage his power to appoint someone to President Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat to raise campaign cash or land a high-paying job. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)