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| Jesse Jackson, Jr. and his wife Sandi are going to federal time out for misuse of campaign funds. Jackson is demanding that he goes to a lenient iron college. |
Former Democratic congressman from Illinois, Jesse Jackson, Jr. is heading to federal time out. The lawmaker accepted a guilty plea for using campaign funds for his lavish lifestyle. The former lawmaker and his wife will be getting time spent in the iron college.
Jackson is the son of Cut His Nuts Off Jackson (Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr.)
Another embarrassing moment for the civil rights leader. You know conservatives hate him with a passion.
The conservative agitators are practically hoping that the civil rights leader joins his son in the iron college.
In June 10, 2012, Jackson took a medical leave of absence from the House, citing exhaustion.
On July 11, 2012, Jackson's office said he was being treated for a mood disorder at a residential treatment facility. His office denied speculation that he was being treated for alcoholism.
However, he also acknowledged that he was under two separate and distinct investigations, by the House Ethics Committee and by the FBI.
On August 13, 2012 it was confirmed by numerous news outlets that Jackson was in fact being treated for bipolar disorder.
Sixteen days after being re-elected to another term, Jackson resigned effective on November 21, 2012, citing his health problems and acknowledging the ethics investigations.
Jackson was named one of the 15 most corrupt members of Congress by the liberal Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington for his role in the scandal.
On September 21, 2010, Jackson said of his affair with Peruvian Giovana Huidobro: "is a private and personal matter between me and my wife ".
The Peruvian hostess was flown to Chicago twice by political fundraiser Raghuveer Nayak one month before the 2008 November election in a bid to see if Jackson would pony up $6 million in exchange for an Illinois senate seat being vacated by Barack Obama.
In September 2010, fundraiser Nayak was mentioned in the press as having been an alleged go between for Jackson and Blagojevich with the message that Jackson would help Blagojevich raise $6 million in exchange for the Senate appointment.
The allegations have become the subject of a Congressional ethics investigation.
Now as he heads off to federal time out, he demands a television and daily newspaper while he serves his time. He thinks that federal time out is going to be an "easy" ride.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the ex-Congressman is ordered to spend time behind bars, he would like to go to either the federal prison camp in Montgomery, Ala., or the low-security portion of the federal correctional institution in Butner, N.C., one of his lawyers said Monday.
The Butner Federal Correctional Complex already has at least two well-known inmates — former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge and former New York financier Bernard Madoff.
Jackson, 48, will be sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for misspending about $750,000 from his campaign treasury.
While the sentencing judge will have the option to suggest where Jackson should serve any prison term, it's up to the Bureau of Prisons to decide where felons are incarcerated.
Ed Ross, a spokesman for the bureau, said it considers a number of factors when placing inmates, including criminal history, medical needs and sentencing recommendations. Additionally, the bureau tries to place inmates within 500 miles of home.
In the request, which was filed with the court Monday, defense lawyer William Drake said the facility in Alabama — about 700 miles from Washington — is the closest federal prison camp to the nation's capital and would "allow Mr. Jackson to maintain contact with his wife and children during incarceration." The Jacksons have homes in Washington and Chicago.
In making the North Carolina facility Jackson's second choice, the lawyer said he "has significant ties to the area, which he believes will aid his rehabilitation during any term of incarceration."
Jackson graduated from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro. The prison in North Carolina is within 500 miles of Washington.
Both facilities are among the best in the prison system, said Alan Ellis, a defense attorney who specializes in federal sentencing. Ellis ranks the Montgomery prison, a minimum-security facility located on Maxwell Air Force Base, among the top 10 in the nation.
"Staff is good there," he said. "You keep your mind occupied, you're working on the base."
Butner is "the crown jewel of the prison system" because it has a number of different facilities and a medical center that draws from the nearby Research Triangle area of Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill, Ellis said.
"It's like a college campus," Ellis said, adding that the buildings are "all named after (Atlantic Coast Conference) schools."
Butner is home to a low-security facility, two medium-security facilities and the medical center. Former Chicago cop Burge, convicted of lying about torturing confessions out of suspects, is in the prison's low-security area. Convicted financier Madoff is in Butner's medium-security facility, records show.
Jackson's lawyers have said he has severe depression and bipolar disorder and have argued that he could not get suitable care behind bars.
Of the two options presented by Jackson's lawyers, Ellis said Butner seemed like the best fit.
"Butner has these various levels, and it will probably be more appropriate to his mental health and medical needs," Ellis said.
Prosecutors want Jackson to serve four years in prison and his wife, former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson, to serve 18 months. Sandi, 49, will be sentenced the same day for failing to report about $600,000 in income. Both resigned from office before pleading guilty in February.
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The anonymous gadfly responds again. Guess what story he was riled up about?
Okay, why do we post this individual's comments?
This is an example of the nonsense you'll be seeing in your comment sections. People who are not capable of understanding the plight of others. People who only focus on vitriol whenever an issue about the Black community comes up.
S. Baldwin was right on two things. It doesn't matter whether they're conservative, liberal or libertarian: If they are White males, they're likely to have issues with race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, economic and political standings.
They can't stomach Blacks achieving. That's probably why for every controversy in Washington, DC, White men blame President Barack Obama overwhelmingly.
This person clearly knows we're not reading his nonsense. So in order to piss the anonymous user off again, we'll lower the font of the word vomit. Use a magnifying glass when you want read this crap.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I'm going to try and be a little friendlier so maybe you will absorb my points rather than completely misinterpreting them and pidgeonholing me as something I'm not
I wouldn't get upset with a black dude in white face, any more than I'd get upset with a white dude in black face-- so long as the context was appropriate. If it's like this, some racist rodeo clown hyping up rednecks to "See obama get taken down by a bull," well that's clearly racist and not appropriate. If it's just some white guy who is a fan of Obama wearing an Obama mask at a support rally, I'm ok with it. Because he didn't have racist intent.
In my ongoing effort to point out YOUR racism, I would say tagging this post "White America" was racist of you. As if that clown somehow represents whites as a whole. Your tags are often extremely racist (especially that PA town hall killer) and I think you should really take a second to think about them.
12:14 PM
Here's another question for you!
Why is this individual still reading this blog if he claims I'm "racist"?
If I am a racist, where's my white sheet and burning cross?
Every American has a form of bigotry in them. There's no denying that. But seriously, why is it this individual focuses on the stories that deal with conservatives acting like racists?
The Republican Party isn't racist. But there's a lot of racists who vote for, support and endorse the Republican Party. Conservatism is a product of that. It's dosed in it.
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