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American Scandal

Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, History Daily, American History Tellers, Lindsay Graham

4.6 • 18.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Tipped off to some shady dealings on several Illinois state boards, the FBI launches an investigation into Governor Rod Blagojevich's administration. At first, they set their sights on a well-connected businessman named Stuart Levine, who seems to using his board seats to run kickback schemes. But soon, their investigation leads them all the way to Blagojevich's campaign headquarters.

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0:00.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of American scandal early and ad free right now.
0:05.7	Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. It's April 14th, 2004 in downtown Chicago.
0:17.0	It's April 14th, 2004 in downtown Chicago.
0:24.0	Stuart Levine is striding confidently through the lobby of one of the city's
0:28.0	swankiest private clubs.
0:30.0	Over his many years of political powerbrokering, Levine has learned that the Standard Club
0:34.8	is the perfect place to have discrete conversations with the city's elite.
0:38.9	Businessmen have been making deals here for more than a century,
0:42.1	and tonight Levine is hoping to make a deal of his own.
0:45.6	Levine's here to have dinner with Tony Resco.
0:48.6	The two men met by chance at a party two years ago, just before the Illinois governor's election.
0:54.5	Since then, Resco has become one of the most covertly powerful people in Illinois, a close friend
1:00.0	and advisor of the state's new governor, Rod Blagojevich.
1:03.6	Levine likes Resco too.
1:05.6	They're both wealthy businessmen who aren't afraid to make under the table deals, and both
1:09.8	share an understanding that politics has little to do with ideology and everything to do with and
1:14.0	everything to do with ideology and everything to do with influence and power.
1:16.0	That's why Levine has asked Resco to dinner
1:19.0	to maintain his spot in the governor's inner circle.
1:22.0	But in order to do that, Levine will need to prove his worth.
1:25.0	Luckily for Levine, he has something going for him.
1:28.0	He's on two important Illinois State boards.
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