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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 [...]
*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 [...]
*First, Jesse Jackson Jr. resigns from Congress, now his wife Sandi is resigning as Chicago’s 7th Ward Alderman. It’s another chapter in the ignominious downfall of one of Chi-town’s and the USA’s most prominent African American political entities, reports the Chicago Tribune. The decision by Ald. Jackson, who was elected in 2007, came less than [...]
*Oops, Jesse Jackson, Jr. did it again. Just five days after the politician resigned from Congress, his lovely wife and fellow politician, Alderwoman Sandi Jackson, filed a series of interesting amendments to her ward committee’s campaign fund, revealing dozens of previously undisclosed transactions that date back three years. One of the records includes a hefty [...]
*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 [...]
*The wife of ailing U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is finally talking. In an exclusive interview, Chicago City Council member Sandi Jackson dispelled rumors that her husband, who has been off the job for nearly eight weeks while being treated for depression, attempted suicide or was receiving help for alcohol and drug addiction. “No, no, [...]
*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 [...]
*Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is under the gun. He recently denied allegations that he told a businessman to offer Rod Blagojevich millions of dollars in exchange to be appointed to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama, says a recent Chicago Sun Times report. Businessman Raghuveer Nayak told the FBI that Jackson instructed [...]
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