Blagojevich's Tribune insider named

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that it has discovered the identity of the Tribune Co. employee who was allegedly asked by Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Chief of Staff John Harris to pressure the paper into firing members of its editorial board.
The man is Nils Larsen, an executive vice president at Tribune Co. who is described as Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell's "point man" in trying to sell the Chicago Cubs to the city.

Blagojevich, upset with editorials that were critical of his actions, allegedly hatched a plan to get editorial writers fired. In November, Blagojevich and Harris reached out to Larsen, identified in court records as "Tribune Financial Adviser."
According to the criminal complaint, Blagojevich instructed Harris to tell Larsen changes needed to be made to the editorial board or the governor would block money for Wrigley Field renovations.

The article reports that the one editorial writer who was named specifically by Blagojevich was not fired, and still works for the paper. No other writers were fired, either.
It is not yet known how much pressure, if any, Larsen applied in an effort to remove the writers from the editorial board.

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