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*The public may be able to get their hands on the items Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife Sandi illegally purchased with campaign contributions, including flat screen TVs, fur coats, a fedora worn by Michael Jackson, a $43,000 gold-plated Rolex watch and more. Once the Jacksons are sentenced, those items, including the stuffed elk heads [...]
*Disgraced former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., who pleaded guilty last week to misusing $750,000-plus in campaign money, is writing a memoir in an effort to “clear up his legacy,” two sources familiar with the project told the Chicago Tribune. Jackson, 47, will be sentenced June 28 after a seven-year spree in which he used the [...]
*(Via ABC7/Chicago) – Former Illinois legislator Robin Kelly captured the Democratic nomination Tuesday in the race to replace disgraced ex-U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., after a truncated campaign season where she got a boost from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s super PAC. The nomination all but assures that Kelly will sail through the April [...]
*In Washington today, former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. entered a guilty plea in court to criminal charges that he engaged in an alleged scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. Earlier, Jackson Jr. and his wife Sandra had agreed to plead guilty in deals with prosecutors. Specifically, Jackson’s guilty plea was [...]
*It’s really, really not looking good for Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi Jackson. On Friday, they agreed to plead guilty to federal charges growing out of what prosecutors said was a scheme to use $750,000 in campaign funds for lavish personal expenses, including a $43,000 gold watch and furs. Prosecutors filed one charge [...]
*On Friday, former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. agreed to plead guilty to charges of misusing campaign funds. The plea is seen as an apparent bid to an end a federal investigation that threatens to also implicate his wife, former Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson. According to the Daily Beast, both had left their offices in recent [...]
*It looks like Jesse Jackson, Jr., is getting solid treatment for bipolar disorder, but now the race is on for his seat. There was a contender for his seat, but it’s not certain what will happen with him now that he’s been arrested. Illinois veteran state senator Donne Trotter, recently announced that he would run [...]
*Oooh Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. has done more harm than good trying to stay in his position. After taking a long leave of absence for bipolar syndrome, he then had the nerve to run again; and the folks voted for him despite his long-term leave and controversial ethics investigation. Now he has decided to resign, and that’s [...]
*The Jesse Jackson Jr. story continues to have m ore twists and turns than a mountain road. The latest chapter is that he has been released from the Mayo Clinic, but is now AWOL according to a published report. Could it be because he may have to go to jail for possible misuse of campaign [...]
*Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) — who won reelection Tuesday night with 64 percent of the vote — is discussing a possible plea deal with the Justice Department regarding the misuse of campaign funds, according to Chicago-area news sources. Jackson, who has checked himself back into the Mayo Clinic following outpatient treatment in Washington, is [...]
*Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. says he’s humbled and moved by the support voters have shown through his illness. The Chicago Democrat easily won re-election to a ninth full term Tuesday. In a statement sent to The Associated Press, Jackson expresses “deep and sincere” thanks. He says once doctors approve his return to work he’ll continue [...]
*The Jesse Jackson Jr. drama has taken another turn. According to the Chicago Sun Times, the Illinois Congressman is returning to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. According to a source, the decision was made to have the Chicago area Democrat return to the famed clinic, where he spent four weeks this summer for bipolar [...]
*Uh oh, this is NOT a good look. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is doing all kinds of bad. The man was spotted hitting up bars while supposedly under doctor’s care at the Mayo Clinic for bipolar disorder. At least that’s what his staff told reporters. The cherry on top is that he was seen on [...]
*Watch out now! Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is a fighter. Despite his battle with bipolar depression, the politician is relentless and plans to push for a re-election. This could be a great campaigning point for the man. He’s been gone from his job for almost four months now, due to hospitalization and other medically related [...]
*At a fundraising event last week, Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson, the wife of Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., went off on the media. She said her husband was doing well and then let out her real feelings. “The jackals are outside. Let them stay outside,” she shouted into a mic, referring to the press anxiously stalking [...]
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