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Blagojevich’s Roland Burris Built Cemetery Monument for Himself

by David Kurtz
12.31.08 | 7:47 am

Senator-designate Roland Burris already has a lavish — and expensive! — cemetery plot/temple constructed for him and his wife under the seal of the state of Illinois listing his many marvelous accomplishments.

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