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When she was only 17. jean casarez has been following this story for years. kelly was not convicted of all charges, right? >> he was not convicted of some acts within the racketeering count. it's a distinction without a difference. there was count one, racketeering. it involved 14 acts. the jury had to find beyond a reasonable doubt on two of them. they found 12 of them. so that was a clear conviction right there. and then the man statutes which are the sexual trafficking on the federal level. the prosecutions but saying there was sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, coercion, forced labor...

Which he has been found guilty of count 2, we now find out what the jury agreed on. because the jury doesn't have to be unanimous as to all of these counts. the racketeering counts. all the murders. they only need to find that he is guilty unanimously of, perhaps, one of the murders. being involved with two of the murders. so that is what's going to be so interesting. because during this case his former accomplices, his former friends, testified against him in gruesome detail about how they either murdered people at his behest with him in the room or that he himself murdered certain people. an...

Found that was proven. the murder of edward connors, proven. then moving on here, excuse me. we have the conspiracy to murder thomas king proven. the murder of thomas king, it looks like that one i don't have yet. but the murder of francis leonard, not proven. so again, a very lengthy trial. a lot for them to look at when you're looking at in the racketeering charge. there were multiple counts under that. so that's all still being read now in the courtroom. so the significant part of it is on those two counts, the racketeering counts. it looks like he was found guilty. they really only needed ...

Well. the charge, count 24, which he's been convicted on is that rod blagojevich allegedly lied to the fbi during a march 16th, 2005, meeting willfully and knowingly making false statements that he tried to maintain a firewall between politics and government. that he does not track or want to know who contributes to him or how much they are contributing to him. all right. so we've just received word he's convicted, a guilty verdict on count 24, false statements. >> that's a felony. it's a very well known much prosecuted crime called section 1001. it is what martha stewart was convicted of. a f...

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