The landfill and Blagojevich's fall

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

It was the feud that helped start it all. In January 2005, then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich ordered state environmental workers to shut down a Will County landfill owned by Frank Schmidt -- a relative of Blagojevich's wife, Patti, and of his father-in-law, powerful Chicago Ald. Richard Mell (33rd).

Blagojevich's administration had accused Schmidt of accepting illegal waste and of "using his ties to the Blagojevich family to solicit" business for an illegal-dumping operation.

You'll want to read this one.