(cst) The charges also include alleged attempts by the governor to influence the Tribune editorial board, threatening, that if the Tribune didn’t support him, he wouldn’t approve the sale of Wrigley Field. Gov. Blagojevich got the call at 6 a.m. It was the head of Chicago’s FBI office to tell him he was being arrested. “Well, I woke him up,” Robert Grant said. “The first thing he asked was this a joke. He wanted to make sure this was an honest call.” Grant said he told the governor two agents were standing outside his door, and asked him to open the door “so we can do this as quietly.” “He was very cooperative,” Grant said, adding that the governor’s two young daughters were asleep but his wife Patti was awake. The governor was led away in handcuffs, “as is usual protocol,” Grant said. At a news conference hours later, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said the corruption charges against Blagojevich represent “a truly new low” and “would make Lincoln roll over in his grave.”

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