President Donald Trump planned on Monday to issue a pardon for former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a source familiar with the plan said. Blagojevich, a Democrat, was removed from office in 2009 after prosecutors said he tried to sell or trade the U.

The pardon was the latest overture between the president and the former governor, who is still known in Chicago simply as “Blago.”

Blagojevich, who appeared on Trump's reality TV show, "Celebrity Apprentice," was convicted on political corruption charges in 2011 and sentenced to 14 years in prison. He served eight years before Trump,