Topic: Jesse Jackson Jr.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich told jurors on Thursday he was working to name state Attorney General Lisa Madigan -- not U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson -- as Barack Obama's successor in the Senate when he was arrested in 2008.Testifying ...
Raghuveer Nayak is a Chicago businessman who has been named by an unidentified source as a donor for the $1 million price Rod Blagojevich is alleged to have offered for President-elect Barack Obama 's vacant Senate seat. The source went on to ...
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. meet on Chicago mayor's raceWhite House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel met privately with Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Wednesday night to discuss the Chicago mayor's race.A source close to Jackson says ...
News briefs related to U.S. politics are presented. Conflicts between Democratic members of Congress are noted, including between Senators Patty Murray and David Vitter, and between Representatives Jesse Jackson Jr. and Lee Terry. House Democrat leaders have asked staff to begin drafting ...
The author reflects on being disrespectful of Jesse Jackson Jr., son of Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., when speaking at the Democratic National Convention in 2008 in the U.S. He asserts that it is painful for Reverend Jackson to listen to his son ...
US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. under ethics investigationAn independent panel that reviews possible ethical lapses by members of the House of Representatives has launched a preliminary review of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s efforts to be appointed to the U.S. Senate by ...
A few days ago, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Harry Reid phoned Rod Blagojevich in early December to discuss the vacant Senate seat that Blagojevich was about to fill by appointment. In the conversation, according to the paper, the Senate majority leader ...
Fundraiser emerges in Blagojevich probe as Jackson Jr. says he and brother are innocentA 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 ...
House ethics committee hands GOP a gift by expanding probe of key Democrat RangelHouse Republicans were heading toward a down-in-the-dumps holiday. Then the House ethics committee handed them a gift.The committee's investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel's tax problems is expanding, turning what ...
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. caught up in Illinois governor investigation; his father defends himFour days before the election, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich claimed someone came to him with a deal about filling Barack Obama's soon-to-be open U.S. Senate seat. The candidate would ...
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