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Jesse Jackson Jr. Reportedly Set to Plead Guilty to Federal Charges, Could Do 4 Years in Prison

Feb. 15, 2013 2:20pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Former Rep. Jesse Jackson (D-Ill.), seen here with wife Sandi, is reportedly set to plead guilty to federal charges. (AP)

Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is set to plead guilty to federal charges and could spend about four years in prison, according to Politico.

The ex-Illinois Democratic congressman, who resigned his seat late last year after prolonged treatment for mental illness, has been the focus of a federal criminal probe into alleged misuse of campaign dollars. Citing a “source close to the case,” Politico reported Jackson “conspired with his wife to illegally spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses, including a $43,000 Rolex watch, home renovations, fur coats and a huge array of other transactions.”

He is expected to plead guilty to charges of conspiracy, making false statements, and mail and wire fraud, and prosecutors will recommend a prison sentence of between 46 and 57 months and a $10,000 to $100,000 fine.

The plea agreement could be filed as early as Friday, Politico and CBS Chicago reported.

Jackson’s wife, Sandi Jackson, who resigned her Chicago city council seat last month, is expected to plead guilty to a tax offense, according to Politico. The Chicago Sun-Times reported last week Sandi Jackson was feeling “like she was thrown under the bus” when the investigation into Jesse Jackson split into a separate probe of his wife.

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RamonPreston
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:31pm
Could … but he won’t.

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- johnpaulkuchtajr
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:18pm
  Daddy Jackson shoulda oughta taught him mo’ betta’.
  
  Daddy Jackson managed to impregnate a lover and support mother and child on Rainbow Coalition funds. The feds weren’t interested in prosecuting and Jesse even managed to send the little girl to a nice college, all on the Rainbow’s dollar. Now, that’s what made America great!
  
  ‘Remember Benghazi and ALL the Traitors!”
  
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- Anamah
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:04pm
  This is a corrupt party so why only this one is prosecuted?
  
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- lani59
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:47am
  And have you noticed there’s no ecimom here to defend these two wastes of society. Once again makes the case for supporting abortion.
  
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- rlimike
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:50am
  jackson sr. should already be in prison …. maybe jr. will do time for both of them.
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:52am
  Is there a single politician from Illinois who isn’t in prison?
  Oh, wait.
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:54am
  I guess his defense of
  “The money was from my “stash”‘ didn’t fly.
  Darn racists!
  
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RightThinking1
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:31pm
Democrat politician goes to jail…., yawn….., where’s the news?

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- Anamah
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:05pm
  Only one???
  
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MrKnowItAll
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:15pm
Country Club.

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jbcheesehead
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:06pm
Come on, does anyone even think that could possibly happen?

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blackfeather
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:53pm
just four??? put that idiot away permanently.

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- TRUTHandFREEDOM
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:24pm
  Marion Berry all over again. Hell be re-elected as soon as he’s out!
  
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barber2
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:34pm
Remember the rumored payola overtures for Obama’s senate seat fiasco from way back ? Blago and Jackson ? That was one of the very early media passes that Obama got ( long before F&F and Benghazi media passes ). Does this mean that Jackson said too little or too much ? Is this a pay-back by the Obama Chicago radicals or a punishment by them ? One can only wonder. And, of course, there will be no media informant to tell us what the truth was. Which will be just another Obama Media free pass . Ah, Chicago …..

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- JRook
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:03pm
  Ok well thanks for repeating what probably is some Rush lunacy. Perhaps he just got caught doing something illegal and surprise, surprise the justice department didn’t give him a pass. Heck its not like he was interrogating someone using waterboarding or illegal means…. so why should he walk.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:21pm
  JR: Huh ? Of course he got caught doing something illegal . That is why he is going to jail.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:42pm
  jCROOK
  
  Only this ^ dope would support that dope. Two turds
  
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Vigilantwingnut
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:24pm
The sins of the father, like father like son, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and so goes the whole sordid story of the Jesse Jackson family. Nothing but crooks, shakedown artists, and race baiters, the whole lot of them. The real travesty is that not enough of them are going to prison.

Can’t wait to hear all the excuses the Democrats make for them. Conspiracy, making false statements, and mail and wire fraud. He doesn’t have a moral, ethical, or character problem, he has a “I just can’t do the the right thing” problem…

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Gonzo
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:18pm
He’s going to jail? With that track record he qualifies to run for POTUS.

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- huey6367
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:52pm
  Don’t give him any ideas.
  
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Inform
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:15pm
A Democrat committing breaking the law? Say it isn’t so.

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mrunner
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:15pm
Now Michigan just has to lock up John Conyers when he is having a conjugal visit with that beast of a wife Monica. Lock him up for life and maybe he will find time to “read the bill”.

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- earache-my-eye
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:06pm
  Just don’t call them illegal aliens.
  
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MsMarylou8
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:12pm
Sandi Jackson was thrown under the bus by that SISSY. What has happened to a lot of the so called MEN in this country. Mainly the politically correct wimps. WHAAAAA! Should have gotten as many years as the common person.

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perry1980
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:10pm
have fun in federal “pound me in the arse” prison

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- barber2
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:46pm
  Maybe he’ll convert to Islam in prison . Hear the Black Muslim, Chicago based, have quite a following in the prison system. . Sort of a political jail gang.
  
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RAMJR
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:04pm
The way our courts, our laws Constitution and criminals are these days, he’ll probably have more rights and comforts than most legal, law abiding American citizens….and the pension he swindled out of tax payers…Like father like son!

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- RAMJR
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:37pm
  Oh, and don’t forget his wife is ALSO caught in this fraud, in taking money from their campaign, to buy fur coats, jewelry, etc.
  Talk about ‘keeping it in the family’. The value of the father, passed down to the son…lying, cheating, stealing and fake. Snake oil Reverend. Another wolf in sheep’s clothing, which most have known was, and still is, for many years. Yes, the poster family for the Democratic Party.
  
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:01pm
His dad taught him everything he knows, except for how to get away with it.

If he gets 4 years, I’m sure some bleeding hearts will let him out in 15 months. I hope it’s a HARD 15 months.

It’s too bad more of these slimy politicians don’t see jail cells. Many deserve it.

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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:53pm
  Agreed.
  
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.rjk
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:00pm
The ubiquitous apple has not fallen far from the tree. Merely caught in the act…..

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huey6367
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:59pm
4 years isn’t enough

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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:16pm
  Can you say ‘presidential pardon’…
  
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65Mustang
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:59pm
I have no sympathy for the man, just wish more of his comrades in the Democratic congress were joining him, especially daddy.

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Warphead
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:58pm
For everyone else we would have faced the music for our indiscretions a long time ago. Checking into the hospital because we have “mental illness” wouldn’t have helped us one bit. So glad to see it didn’t help him. I guess daddy’s influence ain’t quite what it used to be, you know, with everybody realizing that he was just a crooked fraud like his buddy Al Sharpton. Both of them running around the country crying “Racism” anytime something happened to a black, whether real or made up just to line their own pockets. But I have to say this. It seems that what Jessee’s boy did should get him more than 4 years. It should get him life at least.

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SolitudeBliss
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:57pm
I don’t wanna go to jail, I’m bipolar, wahhhhhhh. I love you my wife, I hate you, I love you my wife…Throw her under bus…..but I love you wife

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mrunner
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:57pm
I guess ethics and morals really are hereditary.

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Thundergod
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:56pm
Its sad when a father has to watch his son go off to prison,when pops belongs there himself.

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Cavallo
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:52pm
Must be the racists.

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- lani59
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:02pm
  So once again you have another black man who feels he’s entitled to spend other people’s money. The only difference between Jackson and Obama was that Jackson’s stash of cash was donated and Obama’s stash of cash is being taken from the taxpayers. Both should be cellmates.
  
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Fubared
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:49pm
Thug, thief, liar. What will happen now to Illinois politics? So odd he turned out like he did.

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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:22pm
  The dummies that elected this waste of Jesse’s spawn will be re-elected when he gets out…
  
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Saff SGT
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:48pm
what no death penalty??? this sucks

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civilwarcometh
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:45pm
Roberts is the justice who wanted this behind closed doors.http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/02/obama-goes-back-to-supreme-court-of-us.html This is today…

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- momrules
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:17pm
  Civil…….As much as I would like Obama to be declared the fraud that he is what do you really think the chances of that happening are? Congress and the media are complicit in the coverup. With Robert’s duplicity the Court is compromised and with Sotomeyar, Kagen and Ginsberg in Obama’s corner I don’t expect much to come of this. I have no faith in SCOTUS to do the right thing.
  
  There is too much proof of the Obama scam and broken laws but any of us who believe this are labeled conspiracy nuts, racists or worse just like we are any time we go against the mainstream message.
  
  This should have not been behind closed doors. We all have a vested interest in the outcome. I’ll keep a good thought though……..
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:31pm
  @MOMRULES: I agree with you i just wanted people know. We can keep our fingers crossed anyway. I’ll never give up lol..
  
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