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Blagojevich Wants to Avoid Media

Rod Blagojevich talks with reporters at the federal building in Chicago after being sentenced last Dec.
Rod Blagojevich talks with reporters at the federal building in Chicago after being sentenced last Dec.

A lawyer for Rod Blagojevich says he hopes to walk through the gates of whatever federal prison he'll report to next month without facing a gauntlet of cameras. 

The former Illinois Governor asked to go to a Colorado prison to start serving his 14-year sentence for corruption.  Blagojevich’s attorney Carolyn Gurland insists Blagojevich could still end up at a prison elsewhere. US prison authorities make the final call and they haven't made a public announcement.             

Gurland says she'd rather the public not find out where Blagojevich is until he's behind bars. She says he's told her he wants to surrender ``with dignity'' and not surrounded by Reporters.  A camera-shy Blagojevich would be a sharp departure from the man who adored the limelight as governor.

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