President Donald Trump announced he was commuting the 14-year prison sentence of Blagojevich on Tuesday, calling the sentence "ridiculous".
The former governor was convicted of political corruption in 2010, just months after he appeared on Trump's reality TV show "Celebrity Apprentice."
He was convicted on charges included seeking to sell an appointment to Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat and trying to shake down a children's hospital.
President Trump said it's time for Blagojevich to get home to his family.
The 63-year-old Democrat exhausted his last appellate option in 2018 and was scheduled for release in 2024.
His wife, Patti, went on a media blitz in 2018 to encourage Trump to step in.
Blagojevich once aspired to run for president himself, but entered the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood in suburban Denver in 2012.
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