Progress Illinois

The sentencing for convicted developer Antoin "Tony" Rezko has been delayed so that he can possibly testify in the retrial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Tony Rezko will be sentenced in January for the crimes he committed working with Rod Blagojevich, which means he's unlikely to testify during the former governor's retrial.

Joseph Aramanda, a former business associate of Tony Rezko, took the stand in former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial this morning and testified that his former boss asked him to orchestrate a plot that would have provided kickbacks to Blagojevich's inner circle through a deal between the state's Teachers Retirement System and an investment firm named Glencoe Capitol. The defense, whose strategy has been to blame Rezko for all of the corruption of which Blagojevich is accused, argued that Blagojevich was not slated to receive any of the money from the crooked deal.