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  • For sentencing, Jacksons get new judge named Jackson

    04/21/2013 2:17:53 PM PDT · by Libloather · 8 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 4/16/13 | Katherine Skiba
    WASHINGTON — The felony cases of former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson, have been assigned to a new judge — named Jackson. Court papers filed Tuesday moved the cases to U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, but did not explain why the judge who accepted the Jacksons' guilty pleas, Robert Wilkins, would not be the one to sentence them this summer. Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree Jr., who recently joined Jesse Jackson Jr.'s legal team, told the Tribune that Wilkins is a former law student whom he knows well, and that Wilkins may...
  • Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Airport Earmark

    07/05/2007 10:44:17 AM PDT · by cowtowney · 7 replies · 708+ views
    Newsmax ^ | 7/1/07 | Newsmax
    Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has put in an earmark request for the Abraham Lincoln National Airport Commission. The trouble is, the airport doesn’t exist – and the commission is run by one of Jackson’s congressional staffers. According to its Web site, the Airport Commission "has a mandate from its members to plan, develop, finance, construct and operate a commercial airport with passenger and cargo facilities near University Park, Illinois.” The airport would be the third in the Chicago area. Jackson’s earmark would take $231,000 from U.S. taxpayers for "Minority and Small Business Development and Procurement Opportunities.” The Commission’s Web...