Jesse Jackson Jr.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Allegedly Asked A Donor To Buy Plane Tickets To Chicago For Former Model

Ryan J. Reilly | September 22, 2010, 2:01PM

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL)

Rep. Jesse Jackson (D-IL) allegedly directed one of his major campaign contributors to give Gov. Rod Blagojevich millions of dollars in campaign contributions in return for appointing Jackson to the then-empty Senate seat of President Barack Obama. Jackson also allegedly directed the same contributor to buy plane tickets to Chicago for a "social acquaintance" of Jackson's who is a former model now working as a hostess at a D.C. restaurant.

Those revelations appear in articles this week in the Chicago Sun-Times, citing anonymous sources, that detail the part of the FBI's investigation into Blagojevich that touched on Jackson.

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