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Imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan’s wife and lawyer say they are seeking clemency from President Barack Obama, citing health reasons for seeking Ryan’s early release.<\/p>\nImprisoned former Gov. George Ryan’s wife and lawyer say they are seeking clemency from President Barack Obama, citing health reasons for seeking Ryan’s early release.<\/p>\n
Ryan’s 75-year-old wife, Lura Lynn, has a terminal lung disease and says she now is on oxygen 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n
And Ryan’s attorney, former Gov. Jim Thompson, says Ryan himself has health problems, including kidney disease and infected teeth. <\/span><\/p>\n Ryan, who was sent to a federal prison in Indiana after his 2006 conviction on corruption charges, turns 76 next Wednesday.<\/p>\n In a telephone interview Wednesday with the Chicago Tribune, Lura Lynn Ryan confirmed she had made a previous plea for clemency for her imprisoned husband in 2008 by calling then-President George W. Bush’s mother, former first lady Barbara Bush.<\/p>\n She said she was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan’s wife and lawyer say they are seeking clemency from President Barack Obama, citing health reasons for seeking Ryan’s early release. Ryan’s 75-year-old wife, Lura Lynn, has a terminal lung disease and says she now is on oxygen 24 hours a day. And Ryan’s attorney, former Gov. Jim Thompson, says Ryan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NRB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769921,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668335\/revisions\/769921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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