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*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 [...]
*Jessie Jackson, Jr. recently took a leave of absence from Congress after being hospitalized for depression. The source of his turmoil hasn’t been revealed just yet, but he was treated at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for gastrointestinal issues as well. “What we thought to be quote-unquote exhaustion was something much deeper, much broader and [...]
*Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison Wednesday over 18 felony corruption convictions, among them allegations that he tried to sell President Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat for cash. “When it is the governor who goes bad the fabric of Illinois is torn and disfigured and not easily repaired,” [...]
*Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been convicted of 17 of the 20 charges against him, including all 11 charges related to his attempt to sell or trade President Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat, reports the AP. Jurors deadlocked on one charge of attempted extortion in an alleged shakedown involving funding for a school in [...]
*A potential juror in the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial tried unsuccessfully to use Oprah Winfrey’s final talk show as an excuse to get out of jury duty, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. The woman told U.S District Judge James Zagel she didn’t want her jury service to interfere with the May 10th taping of the talk [...]
*The wife of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said she and her husband have gone to marital counseling and received spiritual therapy since he revealed his extra-marital affair to her nearly two years ago. “He said it was over. I was mortified and in agony, but he knew if I found out any other way [...]
*In addition to denying claims that he tried to buy Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat from former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Jesse Jackson Jr. is also apologizing today for allegations that he’s been having an extra-marital affair. The alleged woman, Giovanna Huidobro, is described by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed as a “blond bombshell” who [...]
*In a 2008 conversation secretly recorded by the FBI, former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was heard suggesting that Oprah Winfrey should be on a list of people under consideration to fill Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat. “She’s a king-maker. She made Obama,” Blagojevich told his then-chief of staff John Harris in the tapes played for [...]
*Illinois can’t seem to produce a solid politician to save their lives. Ever since their governor Rod Blagojevich tried to sell Barack Obama’s seat to the highest bidder things just have not been the same. Now the democratic candidate for Lt. Governor, Scott Lee Cohen, is on the hot seat. He was running and crying all [...]
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