A taxi driver who made a series of death threats before setting fire to his brother-in-laws house then twice attempting to run him over was yesterday jailed for 12 years.

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Cabbie jailed for trying to kill brother-in-law

A Norfolk taxi driver who made a series of death threats before setting fire to his brother-in-law’s house then twice attempting to run him over was yesterday jailed for 12 years.

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Norfolk taxi driver jailed for attempted murder

During testimony, he pleaded ignorance on some issues and claimed his brother was misunderstood on others Inseparable as children, Rod and Robert Blagojevich drifted apart in adulthood as one brother’s political aspirations landed him in Congress and the Illinois governor’s office while the other made his way in the U.S. military and the business world in Tennessee.

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Robert Blagojevich defends himself, ex-governor at brother’s corruption trial

Three months after he took over his brother’s campaign fund, Robert Blagojevich said he was approached with an offer by a longtime fund-raiser to U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.: Then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich would get $6 million in campaign money if he appointed the congressman to Barack Obama ’s open U.S. Senate seat.The offer came from longtime Jackson fund-raiser, Raghu Nayak, the man authorities …

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Robert Blagojevich: $6 million offer from Jackson camp

Robert Blagojevich adamantly denied Monday that he ever tied political contributions for his brother, ex-governor Rod Blagojevich, to government business while he was running his brother’s campaign fund in 2008.

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Blagojevich’s Brother, Sister-In-Law Take Stand