Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced today, to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to scheming to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on such things as TV's, restaurant dinners, an expensive watch and other costly trinkets. His wife received a sentence of one year. Junior, the son of a rather shady character in his own right, Jesse 'The Extortionist' Jackson, had been a Democrat congressman from Illinois, the most corrupt state in the union, from 1995 until he resigned last November. According to court papers in the case, Jackson used campaign money to buy such items as a $43,350 gold-plated men's Rolex watch and other such niceties that your basic best dressed negro will be wearing this year.
And in what demonstrated the fact that she very obviously had no clue to whom it was that she was speaking, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that as a public official Jackson was expected to "live up to a higher standard of ethics and integrity." Junior is just one more Democrat who seems to think that the law does not apply to him. After prison, Junior will be spending three years on supervised release and will complete 500 hours of community service. Jackson's wife, Sandra, was also sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison for filing joint federal income tax returns that understated the couple's income. Court documents showed that she spent $5,150 in campaign funds on fur capes and parkas.
Junior had pleaded guilty to the criminal charges back in February when he admitted that he and his wife had used campaign credit cards to buy 3,100 personal items worth nearly 600 grand from 2005 through April of last year. Items that included $60,857 for personal expenditures at restaurants, nightclubs and lounges; $16,058 for personal expenditures at sports clubs and lounges; $5,814 for alcohol and $14,513 for dry cleaning. Individual campaign credit card purchases included a $466 dinner for two of "a personal nature" at a restaurant; a washer, dryer, range and refrigerator for the Jacksons' Chicago home; multiple flat-screen televisions, Blu-Ray DVD players and DVDs for their Washington, D.C., home; and a five-day health retreat for one of Mrs. Jackson's relatives.
On Wednesday, Jackson said he hoped his wife would get probation and that if that wasn't available then he would gladly serve her sentence for her. "Give me her time," he said. Gee, now ain't that touching. Jackson also asked to serve out his time in Alabama, saying, "I wanted to make it a little inconvenient for everybody to get to me." So what now, is he trying to be seen as some kind of martyr, or is he trying to grease the skids for his next campaign upon his eventual release? I'm sure his days in public office are far from being over. This little stint behind bars will most likely be seen as a resume enhancer as it usually is with any Democrat. And as we have seen so many times in the past, there is pretty much nothing that will keep blacks from voting for other blacks. Remember drugee Marion Barry?
Under federal sentencing guidelines, Junior could have gone up the river for 46 to 57 months, but of course with Junior being a Democrat and black to boot, the government recommended the lower end of that, 48 months. Jackson's lawyer, Reid H. Weingarten, worked to continued the scam of Junior having some mental condition by writing that the former congressman's mental health might worsen under the stress of incarceration. Jackson has supposedly been treated for depression and bipolar disorder. But I think most folks are able to recognize that as being nothing more than a scam perpetrated by this pathetic loser. A loser who really had everything, but it just wasn't enough! Maybe if he had paid closer attention to how his old man does things, he wouldn't have got busted.
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