Flashback: Feds probe Patti Blagojevich's real estate deals

The Chicago Tribune reports:

The 2004 real estate listing shows Patricia Blagojevich as co-listing agent. Bennett said Patricia Blagojevich collected a quarter of the 4 percent commission on the sale -- about $32,000.

Simpson, reached by telephone at his California office, declined to comment. Before moving, he worked at a Chicago investment firm that also used to employ U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), a close ally of Gov. Blagojevich's and the man who succeeded the governor in his seat in Congress. A check of state records indicates that neither Simpson nor his firm has any state contracts.

Rahm Emanuel.