Feds want to talk to Blago bro

Robert Blagojevich, a Nashville real estate investor, is the chairman of his brother's Friends of Blagojevich campaign fund.

And federal authorities want to talk to him. The Chicago Sun-Times explains why:

Robert Blagojevich has been captured on more than 30 recordings and is referred to as "Fundraiser A" in the criminal complaint. In one conversation concerning filling the U.S. Senate seat, the governor allegedly tells his brother to send word to an emissary for U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. that the governor wanted an upfront contribution in exchange for the appointment, according to charges.

"Some of this stuff's gotta start happening now ... right now ... and we gotta see it. You understand?" the governor was allegedly recorded telling his brother Dec. 4. "You gotta be careful how you express that and assume everybody's listening, the whole world is listening. You hear me?"

The Jackson associate, referred to as Individual D in the complaint, was Jackson supporter and fund-raiser Raghuveer Nayak, sources said. Nayak is a business associate of Jackson's brother Jonathan and a longtime Blagojevich and Jackson contributor.

The next day, after news reports surfaced that investigators secretly recorded the governor, Gov. Blagojevich tells his brother: "Undo your [Individual D] thing."

Fundraiser A (Robert Blagojevich) confirmed that he would follow the gangster-governor's wish.

Unlike his brother, Robert Blagojevich has not been charged with wrongdoing.

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