Oct 28, 2013
Jacob Kiferbaum is in federal prison. "CHICAGO — A building contractor who says a seductive but unsavory world of the rich and the powerful in Illinois led him astray was sentenced Wednesday to just more than two years behind bars – in what was a last piece of unfinished business from the investigation of imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Jacob Kiferbaum, 61, admitted he and others with links to Blagojevich threatened to deny state permission for Naperville-based Edward Hospital's expansion unless it hired Kiferbaum's firm. A 2003 investigation into the scheme triggered a series of investigations that eventually toppled dozens of powerbrokers, including Blagojevich." -Huffington Post