The crook doesn’t fall far from the tree. Like his father, Jesse Jackson Jr, is a shake down artist hell-bent on getting power to increase his fame and bottom line. He was guilty in the Rod Blagojevich scandal where Jackson attempted to buy Obama’s Senate seat. Now the Feds are looking into Jackson’s shady finances. This explains his “bipolar” diagnosis.
From the SunTimes:
The snowballing troubles of Jesse Jackson Jr. took a new turn Friday with the revelation that federal investigators have launched a probe into “suspicious activity” in the South Shore congessman’s finances.
Focusing on a completely new area of scrutiny for the son of the famed civil rights leader, the investigation is not related to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s attempted sale of a U.S. Senate seat, a scandal that has ensnared Jackson in the past, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times.
Rather, the probe — based in the Washington, D.C., FBI field office —is focusing on “suspicious activity” involving the congressman’s finances related to his House seat and the possibility of inappropriate expenditures, the sources said.
The probe was active in the weeks prior to Jackson taking a leave from his U.S. House seat on June 10, a leave his office ultimately attributed to his need for treatment for bipolar disorder, the sources said.
It was unclear whether the investigation involved the congressman’s official House spending account or his campaign finance account. But one source said it was an account monitored by Congress.
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Feds Probe ‘Suspicious Activity’ in Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Finances