{"id":193424,"date":"2008-12-16T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/16\/jesse-jackson-jr-may-have-already-been-talking-to-fitsgerald\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T02:15:00","slug":"jesse-jackson-jr-may-have-already-been-talking-to-fitsgerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/16\/jesse-jackson-jr-may-have-already-been-talking-to-fitsgerald\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson, Jr. May Have Already Been Talking to Fitsgerald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this is true, I think I know why <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wls\/story?section=news\/local&amp;id=6557529\">he sounded so pissed at that press conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He still won&#8217;t be Senator, but if he dropped a dime on Blagojevich months ago, he&#8217;s pretty much in the clear on this:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>ABC7 has learned that since late last summer, the congressman has worked with federal prosecutors, informing on an alleged Blagojevich administration scheme two and half years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And sources tell ABC7 that Jackson has been in regular contact with the feds and has told the government that in 2003 Blagojevich denied the congressman&#8217;s wife Sandi an appointment as Illinois lottery director because Jackson would not donate $25,000 to the governor&#8217;s campaign fund. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure who the sources are, because generally Fitzgerald runs a pretty tight ship, but if this story is accurate the distinguished gentleman from Illinois has been very ill served by all of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this is true, I think I know why he sounded so pissed at that press conference. He still won&#8217;t be Senator, but if he dropped a dime on Blagojevich months ago, he&#8217;s pretty much in the clear on this: ABC7 has learned that since late last summer, the congressman has worked with federal prosecutors, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}