Fund-raiser: Jesse Jackson Jr. behind $6M Senate-seat scheme (Ethics investigation stopped because of potential criminal charges last year)

Jesse Jackson, Jr., has NO COMMENT? When is the last time that a member of the Jackson family had NO COMMENT? The love child of Jesse Sr.? Looks like there are more landmines ahead for Rep Jackson which makes him the perfect candidate to become Mayor of Chicago.

Another example of corruption in the Democrat ranks -- the list keeps growing as we learn of more Democrats for Sale. The Black Caucus is leading the way with corruption starting with Rep Rangel. Before anyone declares that is a racist statement, it is a fact. Will they all be reelected? You can take it to the bank they will be back in Congress as Rangel demonstrated with his win against a group of opponents. Would be willing to bet he got some in the race to make sure he came out on top.

This might explain Rep Jackson's wife considering running for Mayor against her husband if it is true her husband had an affair with the white suburban woman mentioned in the article as has been alleged. This could get interesting even for Chicago politics!

Fund-raiser: Jesse Jackson Jr. behind $6M Senate-seat scheme
Feds had questions about Senate-seat deal and flights for a Jackson acquaintance

September 21, 2010

BY NATASHA KORECKI, CHRIS FUSCO AND LYNN SWEET Staff Reporters



The allegation that Rep. Jesse

Jackson Jr. directed a major

political fund-raiser to offer

former Gov. Rod Blagojevich

millions of dollars in campaign

cash in return for an appointment

to the U.S. Senate  contradicts

public statements he made as

recently as last week.

(AP File)

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. directed a major political fund-raiser to offer former Gov. Rod Blagojevich millions of dollars in campaign cash in return for an appointment to the U.S. Senate, sources said the fund-raiser has told federal authorities.

The allegation by Oak Brook businessman Raghuveer Nayak counters public statements made as recently as last week by Jackson that he never authorized any deal to attempt to buy the Senate seat.

Nayak also told authorities he paid for two airline trips for a "social acquaintance" of the Democratic congressman at Jackson's request, raising more potential ethical and political problems for Jackson.

The FBI interviewed that acquaintance — a Washington, D.C., restaurant hostess named Giovana Huidobro — about a year ago as part of its corruption probe of Blagojevich. Authorities were trying to determine whether Jackson had asked Nayak to offer Blagojevich campaign cash in exchange for the then-governor appointing Jackson to the seat once held by President Obama, according to sources with knowledge of the probe.

Huidobro, Jackson and Nayak all dined together on Oct. 8, 2008 — the same day that Nayak has told authorities he had a key conversation with Jackson about the Senate appointment, sources said. The three then ended up at Ozio, the restaurant and club where Huidobro works and where Jackson has held fund-raisers.

Huidobro told authorities she knew nothing of Jackson's political dealings regarding the Senate seat, according to sources. She also said she flew to Chicago on several occasions at Jackson's request and that Jackson sometimes reimbursed her for her travels.

Nayak told the FBI that he paid for two airline trips for Huidobro from Washington to Chicago in 2008.

A spokesman for Jackson declined to comment Monday.

Reached Tuesday on his cell phone, Jackson said: "I have nothing to say. Call my office. Have a good day."

Pressed about Huidobro, the congressman again said, "I have nothing to say."

Jackson does not appear to have reported the flights for Huidobro as a gift on his House financial-disclosure statement, and it's unclear whether he violated any ethics or fund-raising laws by not doing so.

Excerpt: Read More at Chicago Sun Times

IG-Gate: 'Hush Money' Charge in Sacramento Mayor's Sex Scandal Was Part of Probe

We are now getting the truth about why AmeriCorps Inspector General was fired by the Obama White House. Seems that he discovered that 'Hush Money' was paid to the victims to protect Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. Looks like another former NBA star with a major problem. This time though with Obama in the White House, Johnson a huge Obama supporter, is getting a free pass and the IG Walprin who discovered the details got fired by the White House. Then the White House tried to cover-up the reason for the firing.

Now it is clear there was only one reason -- Obama needed to protect one of his loyal supporters. Politics before ethics!

IG-Gate: 'Hush Money' Charge in Sacramento Mayor's Sex Scandal Was Part of Probe (Walprin firing)
American Spectator
11/23/09
Robert Stacy McCain

Sexual abuse accusations by St. HOPE Academy students against Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson were apparently covered up, possibly with "hush money," according to a 61-page report issued by congressional investigators.

Failure of school officials to report sexual abuse of minors violates California state law, investigative staff of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) noted in their report on the June firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin.

The allegations investigated by Walpin's office were "very serious," Grassley said in a statement, saying that evidence indicates a political motive for the IG's firing. "It seems a lot of people might have been interested in protecting the AmeriCorps program and the Mayor of Sacramento from an IG who was discovering some unpleasant facts."

Byron York of the Washington Examiner reported today reported today that Obama administration officials tried to mislead the public about the reasons for the firing of Walpin. The Grassley-Issa report details how Walpin's IG staffers investigated charges that Johnson's lawyer and officials of the federally-funded St. HOPE program suppressed sexual-misconduct charges against the former NBA star who was elected mayor of California's capital city last year.

Walpin pressed for criminal prosecution of Johnson, an Obama supporter. Instead, a deal that allowed the mayor to avoid prosecution and repay federal grant money was approved by Alan Solomont, a major Democratic fundraiser who is chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency that oversees the AmeriCorps volunteer program.

Excerpt: Read more at spectator.org

Was IG Walpin fired because he uncovered hush money scandal?

The more we read about this scandal, the more we become convinced that the Inspector General Walpin who was fired illegally had the goods on a Friend of Obama. This has it all sex, scandal, hush money, and cover-up all uncovered by Walpin against the Mayor of Sacramento and Friend of Obama, former NBA player Johnson.

What does that tell you? It tells us that a Friend of Obama is immune from prosecution for anything they do. In the Obama world, all is legit as long as they continue to donate and support Obama no matter the crime and the person who discovers the crime is the one who will be fired.

We seem to remember Obama saying he was going to have the most "transparent administration in history." Now we are asking what he meant by that. Some members of the media as they touted the most "transparent administration in history" wrongly assumed it meant everything in the Administration would by open to review. Boy, were they wrong. We know Democrats lie to get elected but this was a whopper of a lie. This Administration doesn't seem to care if they get caught in a lie, they keep right on doing what they were doing. Transparent -- not even a little.

We thought the White House was FOR SALE under Clinton but Bill and Hillary cannot hold a candle to Obama and the Chicago thugs in charge now. They have taken FOR SALE to a whole new level having Government paid people brief various Democrat fundraisers. Nothing is off limits with this group.

Maybe one of these days, they will sell the White House lawn in small pieces for donations and have the taxpayers put in a new lawn? Why not, it would raise money for Democrats and Obama who is in charge of the White House FOR SALE policy.

Read the background on why Walpin was fired and ask yourself what the Obama Administration is doing being the scenes which we have a feeling is even worse.

November 21, 2009

Was IG Walpin fired because he uncovered hush money scandal?
Rick Moran

In normal America, this would be a hot story; Inspector General fired by the White House (illegally) for uncovering a scandal involving a friend of the president who paid hush money to women to keep them from talking about his sexual harassment of them.

And to make the scandal juicier, the president's friend's girlfriend - the Chancellor of public schools in Washington, D.C. - helped him cover up the wrongdoing.

Now doesn't that sound like a juicy scandal? It's got everything; sexual wrongdoing, pro sports, people in high places, cover up, bribery, and a connection to the President of the United States.

But this isn't "normal" America. This is Obama's America where such stories that might have sunk a Republican president are considered "distractions" and not worthy of covering.

To fill in some of the names; Former pro-basketball star now Mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson, a personal friend and supporter of the president, evidently got a little too friendly with at least three women who he paid to hush up his "inappropriate advances."

Enter the Inspector General Gerald Walpin who oversees Americorps and whose investigation had already revealed irregularities in the use of that agency's money by Johnson, including paying kids to wash his car and expensing items from his campaign.

When Walpin tried to have Johnson brought up on charges, the U.S. attorney balked and settled the matter without going to trial (Johnson's charity, St. Hope, paid back more than $800,000 to Americorps). Walpin, quite rightly, was furious and took the matter to the Americorps board where he discovered to his chagrin that a new wind was blowing through Washington and the board members didn't want to anger president Obama.

The result was that an Obama supporter on the board fired off a letter to the White House demanding that Walpin be fired. The excuse was that he was basically senile and that it was imperative that he be removed immediately - despite a law that protected IG's from this kind of summary treatment.

This all happened last spring. Well, now Johnson's peccadilloes have been revealed by congressional investigators along with the attempt to buy the silence of women. And "damage control was handled by none other than Michelle Rhee, then on the board of one of Americorp's charities, now Chancellor of the DC public school system.Byron York of the Examiner has the juicy details:

The employee told investigators that Rhee told her that "she was making this her number one priority, and she would take care of the situation." A short time later, the employee learned that the girl who had complained about Johnson had received a visit from Johnson's personal attorney.The congressional report quotes the girl as saying the attorney "basically asked me to keep quiet," and Johnson offered her $1,000 a month for the duration of her time with St. Hope. Once investigators learned about that, the report says, they had "reasonable suspicions about potential hush money payments and witness tampering at a federally funded entity."

Excerpt: Read More at American Thinker and Byron York,The Examiner