U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald announced that Blagojevich had brought Illinois to "a new low." And Blago retreated, braving a swarm of reporters only for his morning runs.

Then he hired publicist Glenn Selig, of The Publicity Agency -- and the game changed.

Since then, Blagojevich has done more than 100 radio, TV and print interviews. He's gotten "fired" by Donald Trump, started a weekly radio show on WLS-AM, and gave an ethics talk to a snickering crowd at Northwestern University.

The questions remain: Will Blago continue his media binge once his trial starts Thursday? And will this strategy do the ex-governor more harm or good?

To read the story, click here.

Also on Tuesday, attorneys for Blagojevich filed a motion asking Judge James Zagel yet again to start from scratch with selecting jurors for the case.

The defense team has complained that Zagel tossed out three-quarters of the 400 potential jurors who claimed that the trial would be a financial hardship for them.