From the Chicago Sun: It looks like former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
(D-Ill.), who resigned Wednesday, is trying to take any potential heat
off of his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th) — who is also his campaign
manager.
I’m told that Sandi Jackson has hired her own
legal representation as her husband’s lawyers try to work out a deal in
the ongoing federal probe of his campaign finances.
It doesn’t take too much reading between the
lines of Jackson’s resignation letter — unusually poignant — that he is
telling the feds to blame him — and leave his wife out of it. In the
letter, sent Wednesday to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Jackson
acknowledged the probe for the first time, said he is cooperating with
“the investigators, and accept responsibility for my mistakes, for they
are my mistakes and mine alone.”
It’s prudent for Sandi Jackson to have her own
lawyer. She is under the microscope herself as federal agents are
digging into Jackson campaign spending.
According to campaign finance disclosures, Sandi
Jackson has been drawing $5,000-a-month payments from her husband’s
main campaign fund through her firm, J. Donnatella and Associates. Her
company has been on the Jackson campaign payroll for years, and it is
located, according to FEC records, in the couples’ Washington red-brick
rowhouse off DuPont Circle. Sandi Jackson was deeply involved in the
South Side and south suburban political operation the couple put
together — run for a time from the basement of their Chicago home. http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/16568804-452/jackson-jr-shielding-wife.html
Is there anybody in the Jackson or circle that is not corrupt? And Jesse Sr. calls himself a minister and a man of God? Yeah, right.
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