Jackson, Jr.’s Ongoing Blago Problem

Some not-so-good-news for Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) from scoop-digger Carol Felsenthal of Chicago Mag. Thought this didn’t go away?  Apparently not, as Blago’s taint continues to reach beyond Ill-state …

After the government dismissed charges against Robert “Rob” Blagojevich, the brother of former Governor Rod Blagojevich returned to Nashville with his wife to try to rebuild his business and his life. Charges against him were dismissed “without prejudice,” a bit of legalese that means that the government could reinstate charges any time it wished.

So why is the older, more serious Blago sibling putting himself back in the spotlight? Why is Rob offering to travel to Washington to appear before members of the House Ethics Committee, which has resumed an investigation of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., to tell them what he knows about an alleged scheme to trade campaign cash for a Senate seat?

Because, Rob told me Sunday afternoon from Nashville, where I reached him by telephone, he’s an upstanding American citizen who feels it’s his responsibility to tell the ten members of the Committee what he knows. He repeated for me on Sunday a scenario he has described previously, in part under oath during his trial, of two businesmen, Rajinder Bedi and Raghuveer Nayak, allegedly acting on Jackson’s behalf and making six-figure offers of campaign cash to Rod in exchange for a Senate appointment for a seat made vacant by Barack Obama’s election to the presidency. (Jackson has denied all charges and has not been charged.)

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Charles D. Ellison, Managing Editor for Politic365.com, Washington Correspondent for The Philadelphia Tribune and a weekly political analyst providing insight on WDAS-FM (Philadelphia), WVON-AM (Chicago) and KSRO-AM (Sonoma County, CA). He is author of the critically-acclaimed urban political thriller TANTRUM. More information can be found at http://www.cdellison.com

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