WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to scheming to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. Jackson, the 48-year-old son of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, had been a Democratic congressman from Illinois from 1995 until he resigned […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors Friday recommended four years in prison for former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., following his guilty plea this year on criminal charges that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. The government suggested an 18-month sentence for Jackson’s wife, Sandra, who pleaded guilty to filing […]
CHICAGO (AP)- A scheduling change means both former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi Jackson, will be sentenced on the same day in Washington federal court. The former congressman’s sentencing was rescheduled on Friday. He was to be sentenced on June 28 but now will appear on July 1. Sandi Jackson was […]
Chicago ABC7 News is reporting that moving trucks were outside of former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.‘s home in Chicago. Reportedly, Jackson’s wife Sandi, was emptying out the family home in preparation for a move to Washington D.C. She used the Medley’s Movers and Self Storage company. Currently, the Jackson’s two children are attending school in […]
You may have the chance to nab yourself an elk head, an expensive gold-plated Rolex or some exclusive Michael Jackson fedoras if these items which were purchased by Jesse Jackson Jr. with campaign funds is sent to the auction block. Other possible items that may be auctioned off include a flat screen TV, some furniture, […]
Chris Paul jokes with the crew about Stephon Marbury and Jesse Jackson Jr.’s rough legal week.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. entered a guilty plea Wednesday in federal court to criminal charges that he engaged in an alleged scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. Both the former Illinois congressman and his wife, Sandra, had agreed to plead guilty in deals with federal prosecutors. […]
Federal prosecutors should leave Sandi Jackson alone. I don’t know if Jackson broke the law or if she’s just a scapegoat in a political take-down, but I’m only thinking about her school-age children while this high-profile drama unfolds. Jackson, the wife of former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, is reportedly the target of a separate criminal […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.‘s wife has resigned from the Chicago City Council. Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson says in a letter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday that she’s stepping down because she can’t adequately represent her South Side ward while she deals with “very painful family health matters.” Her resignation […]
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. Her actions revealed dozens of previously undisclosed transactions that date back three years. One of the records includes a hefty $13,000 from her hubby’s congressional account […]
