It seems that Attorney General Designee Eric Holder forgot to list that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich tried to hire him to sort out the state's long dormant casino license on his 47-page response to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire made public this week.  Considering that he submitted to questionnaire five days after Blagojevich's high profile arrest at a time when Barack Obama's transition team was shaken over the conversations between some of its member and the Governor, Holder's position that this was an oversight seems a tad suspicious.   Blagojevich and Holder appeared together at a March 24, 2004, news conference to announce Holder's role as "special investigator to the Illinois Gaming Board" -- a post that was to pay Holder and his Washington, D.C. law firm up to $300,000.Holder's firm never got the assignment because the staff of the Illinois Gaming Board recommended against it.  In an...(Read Full Post)