(AP) — The House ethics committee says it will comply with a Justice Department request to take no action in an investigation of Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois. The committee’s announcement Tuesday follows normal practice when the department is concerned that a congressional inquiry would interfere with its investigation. The ethics panel is […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — The one-year deadline has passed for congressional ethics investigators to announce whether a probe into U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson will resume, and so far, the committee refuses to shed any light on the situation. The Chicago Sun-Times first reported last year that congressional ethics investigators began an inquiry into Jackson regarding […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. directed a major political fund-raiser to offer former Gov. Rod Blagojevich millions of dollars in campaign cash in return for an appointment to the U.S. Senate, sources said the fund-raiser has told federal authorities. The allegation by Oak Brook businessman Raghuveer Nayak counters public statements made as […]
(AP) — Mulling over a possible run for mayor of Chicago, a defiant Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., spoke out publicly for the first time on Friday about potentially damning details that emerged in former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s recent corruption trial. Prosecutors dropped a bombshell when they said in court a former state official told […]
(AP) — Illinoisans will vote twice to fill President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat in November. Gov. Pat Quinn filed paperwork Thursday for a special election before lawyers went to court to try to finalize the details of what that ballot will look like. Voters will pick a senator to serve a six-year term in […]
(Chicago Tribune) — Secret recordings of then- Gov. Rod Blagojevich talking about what he could get in return for a U.S. Senateappointment show that as the federal authorities closed in, there was just one contender he thought he could get a deal with — U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Though he isn’t charged and has repeatedly denied any […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Federal prosecutors said Wednesday for the first time that U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. attended a meeting in 2008 at which $1 million in fund-raising for Rod Blagojevich was discussed in exchange for Jackson’s own Senate seat appointment. The meeting described by prosecutors was not previously disclosed by Jackson. Read More…
(NYT) — It’s too bad that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.; RepresentativeJohn A. Boehner, the United States House minority leader; and other big-time politicians couldn’t find time on Monday to show up at the Dirksen Federal Building while they were in Chicago. Read More…
(NYT) — It turns out that Rod R. Blagojevich, the impeached former governor of Illinois, flamboyant reality television star and billboard for the helmet hairdo, had an unexpected admirer in New York City: MayorMichael R. Bloomberg. During Mr. Blagojevich’s corruption trial on Monday, it was revealed that just days before the 2006 election, Mr. Bloomberg gave him […]