CHICAGO (STNG) -- The on-again, off-again sentencing of Antoin “Tony” Rezko could be off again.
On Thursday morning, U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve canceled deadlines by which lawyers were to submit filings on the sentencing of the Wilmette businessman.
Rezko was to be sentenced Jan. 6 -- a rushed date he recently requested as he seeks to be freed from solitary confinement.
The possibility of another change comes two days after Gov. Blagojevich was charged in shakedown schemes and the feds revealed they had secret recordings of the governor.
Since this summer, Rezko has provided information to the government about alleged corruption related to the governor, according to government papers unsealed Tuesday. The government is still judging his reliability, they said, and Rezko has not formally signed a plea deal.
There may be more incentive to do so now that he knows the government has other cooperators against the governor.
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