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Report: Jesse Jackson Jr. Insists On Disability Pay As Condition For Leaving Office

We have previously discussed how Jesse Jackson Jr. disappeared for months without explanation while federal investigators sought information on allegations that he tried to buy a Senate seat and that he used campaign funds on his home. He then was admitted to the Mayo Clinic for pyschological problems but insisted on running for reelection (without campaigning). He won handily and pledged to serve his constituents . . . while he reportedly negotiated a criminal plea bargain. He left Mayo and there is now a report that Jackson is demanding a disability package in return for leaving office.

Investigators are reportedly also looking into $42,000 that they believe Jackson paid to buy an alleged mistress a Rolex watch.

As a threshold matter, it is unclear to me why there are serious plea bargain and disability discussions if Jackson used campaign funds to improve his home. The late Sen. Stevens was prosecuted for such misconduct. This would be a case of theft from his campaign of $20,000. Average people go to jail for a fraction of that amount in cases of theft or fraud. However, this is the son of Jesse Jackson.

There is now a report that Jesse Jackson Jr.’s wife, Alderman Sandi Jackson, is being also investigated for her payments as a “consultant” for Jackson’s campaign with a monthly payment. For those of us familiar with the Jackson family business in politics, none of this is particularly surprising. Yet, voters in some of the poorest areas of Chicago continue to reelect Jackson and his wife.

In the meantime, Jackson continues to reportedly self-deal and, if this story is true, hold his office hostage to continuing federal support. This is all the more shocking if it is true that Jackson is negotiating a plea bargain. It is hard to imagine prosecutors seriously considering a reduction in charges against a powerful politician, let alone such a reduction while he holds up Congress for money. It also makes his non-campaign for reelection all the more problematic. As soon as he was reelected, the news account suggest he used his new term to leverage a disability payment (while telling his constituents that he was working for their interests).

Source: Politico

60 thoughts on “Report: Jesse Jackson Jr. Insists On Disability Pay As Condition For Leaving Office”

  1. Swarthmore mom, Evidence shows that once in Congress for 10 years or more the disability to recognize ones past, and past values infects the mind of politicians. It has been diagnosed as “AmnesiaticConvienititus” The only cure for it is a large shadowy acquired bank account.

  3. DonS
    1, November 16, 2012 at 10:43 am
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    Bingo!

    and sometimes the Dx is spot on…..

  4. Just a wild stab. This would not be a disability settlement under Social Security, but something specially designed to satisfy Jackson’s whim. I guess the one thing I could say is that the erratic, grandiose “demands” of Jackson may well be consistent with the manic phase associated with true bipolar disorder which, generally, is often too readily and loosely diagnosed.

  5. Waldo, When anyone mentions Jesse Jackson or his family, the “lynch mob” as you say always comes out.

  6. “As a threshold matter, it is unclear to me why there are serious plea bargain and disability discussions if Jackson used campaign funds to improve his home. The late Sen. Stevens was prosecuted for such misconduct. This would be a case of theft from his campaign of $20,000. Average people go to jail for a fraction of that amount in cases of theft or fraud. However, this is the son of Jesse Jackson.”

    Not that I want to interrupt the lynch mob because that is so much more fun than actually considering the evidence, but is it inconceivable that the feds case against Jackson is not air tight? That’s one of the typical reasons a plea bargain is offered.

  7. Jr. obviously didn’t learn how to skim and shakedown as well as his old man. The investigation of his wife is probably because the plea negotiations broke down. The Feds used that tactic w/ Blago and one of Blago’s errand boys. With the errand boy it was his girlfriend, he flipped, Blago as we know just dug in his heels. This is Chicago folks. You’re dealing w/ entrenched crooks who have stolen w/ impunity..hell they get reelected. The city takes a perverse pride in their corrupt reputation. So, if you want to take them down you got to throw one under the chin sometimes. “The Chicago way.”

  8. His father was never prosecuted for all of the money he made his nonprofit pay out to his mistress with whom he fathered a child out of wedlock. Like father, like son. At least the father didn’t fake a mental illness as an excuse for his infidelity.

  9. The difference between JJJr. and Stevens is the fact that there are billboards all over the South Side with the president and JJJr. holding hands and endorsing each other. We’ve been laughing about Sandi Jackson’s consulting business for years here. The Chicago papers have done stories on it. The Jackson’s have always insisted they obtained a legal opion from federal election authorities before his wife got the contract to consult for him. Everyone in town laughs and knows this is bullsh**. No one really knows what she’s done to earn her fees in a district where he runs unapposed. I am absolutely convinced he was told by the Feds he was going to have to go down on something during the Blago prosecution, but they were going to time it so the Democratic party could control his seat and so Obama would have less egg on his face. A deal will be made on Holder’s/Obama’s orders now that they don’t have any political fall-out to worry about.

  10. I can think of about 50 or so of them I would agree to disability pay if they would leave office. It would be a good deal.

  12. “The Jackson family..” JT impugns the father and mother and all who bear the name. Disability? Who pays it out of what fund or program? Is it like ScaliaCare? Give us some facts. JT impugns Chigaco. JT has not produced one lie, one fraud emited from this Jesse, and none as serious as JT’s employer has foisted on the academic community and the students who chose to go to law school at George Washington University based on such fraud. So who is worse? Jesse or JT?

  16. It is hard to imagine prosecutors seriously considering a reduction in charges against a powerful politician, let alone such a reduction while he holds up Congress for money.

    It would be hard to imagine that in a just universe, but my cynicky-sense says that in the U.S. (other countries too) once you have reached a certain point of power, you are immune from the same rules of law that apply to us proles. As George Carlin said, “There’s a club, and YOU aren’t in it.” I guess Jesse Jr. is, and so was his dad. Nice to see The Owner Class is letting some black folks in to join the crooked banksters, diaper-wearing U.S. Senators and other elite scum in the “Above the Law Club.”

    I wonder how the “made men” know they’re in? Is there an initiation rite, or do they get taught a secret handshake? Depending on how powerful a person is, does he or she get a printed card that says “You can get away with THESE crimes, but you are not at the MurderAnyoneYouWant level yet.”

  17. He might be a schmuck, but he is their schmuck.

    Even more evidence there is more than one system of justice: one for the political class, one for the well connected, and one for everyone else.

    send him to prison

  19. Chicago has more bars per capita than any other large American city.

    Lots of places to stop on the way to the polls.

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