Jailed Blagojevich loses bluster

The Rod Blagojevich who once challenged a prosecutor to face him like a man and the glad-handing politician who took to celebrity TV shows to profess his innocence was nowhere to be found as he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption.

Frowning and pulling nervously at his tie, the disgraced former Illinois governor seemed like another person as he stepped up to the address the sentencing judge yesterday.