eventually led the successful prosecution of rod blagojevich and put him in prison for more than a decade was the assistant u.s. attorney for the northern district of illinois, a man named reid char and now as of today, that same reid char is the special council leading the chris christie investigation for the assembly of the state of new jersey. yes. that happened today. reid char was patrick fitzgerald s deputy u.s. attorney for an unusually long amount of time. he also led the prosecution of one of rod blagojevich s fund-raisers. that was him there standing behind patrick fitzgerald in the big, unbelievable rod blagojevich was arrested press conference. he was there for 12 years, he oath recently went into private practice in 2012 about the new jersey state assembly could have picked any lawyer in the country for the chris christie bridge investigation. if you could pick anybody in the