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CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said Friday that he was fighting to get "my name back" after he was identified as "Senate Candidate 5" in a criminal complaint against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. says neither he nor any emissaries offered favors in exchange for a Senate appointment. Jackson, the son of famed civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and a six-term Democratic congressman from Chicago, had publicly sought to succeed President-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. Jackson had talked to Blagojevich, the person with the sole power to make the appointment, on...

fundraiser held by Indian-American businessmen three days before Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested on corruption charges emerged Friday as a potentially key event in the federal investigation into whether he tried to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. Questions are being raised about last Saturday's event for Blagojevich because Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s brother, Jonathan, was among those attending. The Indian community has a long history of supporting the Jackson family's political aspirations, and the congressman has been clear about his interest in succeeding Obama.

Move over, Client No. 9. The capital has a new man of mystery: Senate Candidate 5. Not since Eliot Spitzer did his business at the Mayflower Hotel has there been so much excitement over an unnamed person in a federal criminal case. Client 9 may have paid for sex, but Candidate 5 was willing to pay for a Senate seat -- or so claimed Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to the feds. The guessing game didn't last very long yesterday before Candidate 5 more or less outed himself. "I did not know the process had been corrupted," Rep. Jesse Jackson...

On CNN within the last hour, Wolf Biltzer slipped in some interesting and potentially important news about what federal prosecutors might and might not have on Jesse Jackson Jr., who today was all but confirmed by his lawyer to be Senate Candidate 5. Talking to legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, Blitzer said that according to law enforcement sources, Pat Fitzgerald's office does not have recordings of Jackson himself speaking to Rod Blagojevich as part of the US Attorney's investigation into the governor. If true, that would be significant, because the indictment filed yesterday against the governor quotes him telling an aide...

ABC News is reporting that Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is "Senate Candidate No. 5" mentioned in the FBI Affidavit unveiled yesterday against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. In the video above, Jackson was interviewed today by ABC News and denied as an "impossibility" that he, or anyone on his behalf, offered money to Blagojevich in order to be named the next U.S. Senator from Illinois . . . . . (Watch Video)

Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) is the anonymous "Senate Candidate #5" whose emissaries Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich reportedly claimed offered up to a million dollars to name him to the U.S. Senate, federal law enforcement sources tell ABC News. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said today that the FBI wants to interview him as part of the investigation... Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said today that the FBI wants to interview him as part of the investigation into Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, though he says he's been told he is not a target of the probe. In this 2005 file photo,...

'Senate Candidate 5' Capitol Fax's Rich Miller updates the state of the speculation on the identity of "Senate Candidate 5," the public official who -- from the complaint -- appears to be in the most jeopardy, aside from Blagojevich and Harris. "Senate Candidate 5." He thinks its either Emil Jones or Jesse Jackson, Jr., though it's conceivable that others would fit the description. Though Fitzgerald warned us not to cast aspersions based on Blagojevich's version of other people's words, this is the damning quote: “We were approached ‘pay to play.’ That, you know, he’d raise me 500 grand. An emissary...