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(171,070 posts) Wed Feb 20, 2013, 08:52 PM Feb 2013

Ugh... How Jesse Jackson Jr. (D) Spent His Campaign Funds [View all]

I'm glad he's gone.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/02/20/how_jackson_spent_his_campaign_funds.html

How Jackson Spent His Campaign Funds

Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D) pleaded guilty today "to a conspiracy to siphon about $750,000 in federal campaign funds for their personal use," the Chicago Tribune reports.

"About 3,100 personal purchases were made on campaign credit cards, totaling $582,772.58... Prosecutors said $60,000 was spent on restaurants, nightclubs and lounges; $31,700 on personal airfare; $16,000 on sports clubs and lounges; $17,000 on tobacco shops; $5,800 on alcohol; $14,500 on dry cleaning; $8,000 on grocery stores and $6,000 at drug stores."

"In one of the more exotic purchases, Jackson used campaign funds in the spring of 2011 to pay a taxidermist in Montana $7,058 for two mounted elk heads to be shipped to his office in Washington. This was the beginning of an FBI sting, according to court documents."

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Ugh... How Jesse Jackson Jr. (D) Spent His Campaign Funds [View all] babylonsister Feb 2013 OP

It sounds so much like bi-polar spending. Wasn't he recently diagnosed? nt Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #1

Whatever, he clearly savored a lifestyle that were not affordable on a Congress-critter's salary indepat Feb 2013 #4

I'm not excusing his actions at all, but bi-polar can really mess up your life. Obviously. nt Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #11

That's what it looks like to me Warpy Feb 2013 #6

Being diagnosed so late in life usually makes it very difficult to be stabilized easily. Rather than Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #13

People with bi-polar disorder are not in a manic phase for a decade. cali Feb 2013 #20

I am not defending them, cali. He is sick, it didn't happen overnight - she likely enjoyed the manic Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #21

sounds like theft to me. spanone Feb 2013 #24

It is. nt Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #25

17k on 'tobacco shops' RZM Feb 2013 #2

More likely cigars from real tobacco shops REP Feb 2013 #5

You're probably right RZM Feb 2013 #8

Or 6' bongs stuffed with fine cigars REP Feb 2013 #14

Stupid ass malaise Feb 2013 #3

Wow! Must have been been buying crates of Montecristo's. aptal Feb 2013 #7

What a dishonest fool! Auntie Bush Feb 2013 #9

So why wasn't Christine O'Donnel charged dsc Feb 2013 #10

because a certain segment of the D party wants the jackson family out of politics forever? HiPointDem Feb 2013 #12

Not prosecuting O'Donnell keeps the Jacksons out of politics ... how? REP Feb 2013 #15

apparently no one has the knives out for O'D. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #16

Probably because she never held office, unlike Jackson REP Feb 2013 #18

lots of candidates get knifed, too. if there's someone out there who wants to knife them. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #19

For one she was not an elected official hack89 Feb 2013 #28

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2013 #17

Fucking A, he's a disappointment Taverner Feb 2013 #22

Very sad. He could have done so much better. n/t backscatter712 Feb 2013 #23

Very sad. Takes on a whole different character when one understands his recent diagnosis stevenleser Feb 2013 #26

Wild excess always outs cheaters SoCalDem Feb 2013 #27