A federal judge has sentenced former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to 30 months in prison, following his guilty plea that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Wednesday that as a public official Jackson was supposed to live up to a higher standard.
Jackson, 48, the son of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, had been a Democratic congressman from Illinois from 1995 until he resigned last November.
According to court papers in the case, he used campaign money to buy items including a $43,350 gold-plated men’s Rolex watch.
(AP)
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Lol! Now they should make room for his father too.
i would say racism is at stake here (tongue in cheek) however, the judge’s last name is also jackson
I’m sure he’s only going to prison because he was racially profiled.
This will bring a much bigger protest march the 100 city’s across USA after Zimmerman’s trial. I just wonder will this trial bring it to be 100,000 cities across the globe?
Let him take his racist father with him.
I hope he gets a big Aficun-Americun roomy named Buba.
if he paid $43,350 for a “gold-plated” rolex he should
be sent to bellvue