Posted on 11/26/2012 3:53:24 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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.....
....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....
The Jackson Crisis Managers
Jackson’s legal team hired Washington’s premier crisis management firm — Smith & Company — to help Jackson navigate through his troubled waters. The principles are Judy Smith and Christopher Garrett.
Smith hit the news, again, in recent days when Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite who figures in the former CIA Director David Petraeus sex scandal, retained Smith to represent her. The ABC show “Scandal” leading character, Olivia Pope, is based on Smith, a co-executive producer of the series......
....Kelley’s hiring of Smith triggered a [NYT] Nov.16 story on Smith headlined “Another Client for Ms. Fix-It.” The Washington Post on Nov. 22 featured Smith and other lawyers and media managers as the “power players” in the Petraeus saga.
Smith shot to fame herself when she represented Monica Lewinsky during the investigation of former President Bill Clinton that led to his impeachment. Smith also has repped other scandalized figures, including former Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and NFL player Michael Vick.....
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After watching “Boss” on Starz, I have an entirely new perspective on the level of corruption in politics, especially Chicago. A pity that the show has been cancelled.
Nor does he need Sharpton, Calypso Louie or any of the other race/poverty pimps. He's almost entirely supported nationwide by blacks even without the help of these so-called "leaders".
They'll all be thrown under the Greyhound.........and the pimping will be left to Obama and his DC thugocracy exclusively.
Bye, bye, Junior.
Leni
Jr’s insanity is far more profound and further developed than his peers.
He bots dat job fair and square. Him wants to be da senator.
It looks like he was using her to launder campaign money into personal income. If she's investigated, she will likely throw HIM under the bus to protect herself. She's likely told him that she's unwilling to get into legal trouble over this, and WILL throw him under the bus.
How does that work? (Have the Sun-Times fired the editor?)
If anybody starts really digging, it will not be surprising to find that other recipients of his campaign cash were doing kickbacks as well.
Re: “Boss”
I watched it too.
Completely believable, what with the crowd governing the country.
The ward “heads” in Cook County and their power was more than a little troubling.
Of course he has to shield her - she’s going to be running to fill his vacant seat.
Indeed the Chicago machine is well oiled.
IL people should demand Jesse, Sr., for Congress, who used to say ad nauseum “Up with Hope, Down with Dope”.
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