Blago Investigation Update: Unveiling Senate Candidate C

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Multimillionaire Chicago trader Blair Hull wanted to be a U.S. senator so badly that he spent more than $24 million of his personal fortune in 2004, but he ended up losing to Barack Obama in the Democratic primary.

And when Obama was elected president last year and gave up his Senate seat, Hull went after it again.

But this time, he worked behind the scenes, quietly angling to get appointed by then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

Hull is the unnamed "Senate Candidate C" mentioned in one line of the former governor's indictment, according to sources with knowledge of the Blagojevich investigation.