Jesse Jr and Sandi Jackson Get Jail Time

[Kondor3]

Both Jacksons get prison terms; he'll serve first

By Katherine Skiba and Marina Villeneuve - Tribune Newspapers - 1:46 p.m. CDT, August 14, 2013


WASHINGTON – Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced today to 30 months behind bars and his wife, Sandi, got a year in prison for separate felonies involving the misspending of about $750,000 in campaign funds.

The Jacksons will be allowed to serve their sentences one at a time, with Jackson Jr. going first, based on the wishes of the family as expressed by Dan Webb, an attorney for Sandi Jackson.

Jackson Jr. will report to prison on or after Nov. 1, the judge said.

In addition to the 2.5 years in prison, Jackson Jr. was sentenced to three years of supervised release. Sandi Jackson was ordered to serve 12 months of supervised release following her prison term.

The judge emphasized that Sandi Jackson was sentenced to exactly 12 months, not the year-and-a-day sentence that some criminals get. Defendants sentenced to a year or less cannot qualify for time off for good behavior in prison. But those sentenced to a year and a day can qualify, which means they may end up serving only about 10 months. Under this rule, Sandi Jackson must serve the full year.

If Jackson Jr. earns time off for good behavior in prison, he would serve about 25.5 months.

Sandi Jackson may wish to serve her term in a federal correctional institution in Marianna, Fla., Webb said. The facility, for minimum-security female offenders, is a prison camp about 65 miles from Tallahassee.

As for Jackson Jr., the judge said she would recommend he be placed in a federal prison camp in Alabama -- he has stated through counsel that he wants to be assigned to a prison camp in Montgomery -- or in Butner, N.C.

Such recommendations by judges to the Bureau of Prisons are advisory only, with the bureau having final say.

Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is no relation to the defendants, addressed Jackson Jr. before announcing his term. She said people including his father had written to her urging that he be placed under supervision without going to prison.

She said that if she were to do so, it would appear as if there were two systems of justice: “one for the well-connected and one for everybody else.”

“I cannot do it,” she intoned. “And I will not do it.”

Both Jacksons wept in court as they addressed the judge before sentencing.

Jackson Jr. apologized for his crimes and expressed special regrets to his mother and father.

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The Law has spoken.

Time for the Guilty to pay for their crimes.

Justice prevails, once again.

Even if it was a wee bit lenient on this phoney-baloney Mayo Clinic refugee and his corrupt partner.

I'll bet they're not laughing now...

 

[Avatar4321]

Glad to see they didn't get special consideration.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Hmm Sandi Jackson gets one year...

Surprise premise for season 2 of 'orange is the new black???'

 

[waltky]

Jesse Jackson Jr. wants full presidential pardon...

Jesse Jackson, Jr. Thinks Felons ‘Entitled’ to Presidential Pardon
May 27, 2014 -- A former cellmate of Jesse Jackson, Jr. says the disgraced ex-congressman from Chicago "is committed to convincing this President, and all future candidates for the highest office in the land, to take on the 'Audacity of Forgiveness'" by giving all felons who have served their time a full presidential pardon.

Doing so will “make us all feel better about ourselves as a nation,” inmate John Karoly wrote from “inside the joint” in an eight-page letter to “select media outlets”. Jackson did a “fastidious job” scrubbing toilets and unclogging drains with a toothbrush at the Federal Correctional Institution at Butner, North Carolina as part of his “personal penance,” Karoly claimed.

But “no matter how hard he scrubs, he later tells me that it doesn’t wipe his slate clean.” “Like the rest of us, he yearns for the forgiveness that has eluded him” which, Karoly added, “Jesse rightly insists is a matter of human entitlement.” “When you pay off your credit card debt in full, you no longer owe anything. The full utilization of the President’s power to forgive, may be the greatest legacy any President can leave behind,” Karoly wrote in his jailhouse missive. NBC’s Chicago affiliate first reported on May 13 that the station received Karoly’s letter on April 11, accompanied by an affidavit from Jackson authorizing its release, although the station did not post it on its website.

According to the letter, Jackson is seeking presidential pardons “identical to the one President Gerald Ford issued to former President Richard Milhaus Nixon in 1974." Karoly said he was initially reluctant to make the cellmates' private conversations public. But “I suddenly realized that if Jesse’s dream takes shape, as I earnestly believe it will, there will be no contemporary chronicler to tell the world how his ‘forgiveness mission’ was birthed,” wrote the former Democratic National Committee superdelegate who is serving six and a half years at the minimum security prison after being convicted of mail fraud, money laundering and tax evasion.

However, a federal prison official at Butner denied that the former congressman was required to scrub prison toilets, sinks and floors with a toothbrush. “That is not prison policy,” a spokesman told CNSNews.com. Although he declined to say whether Jackson had been assigned to clean any bathroom facilities, he noted that inmates are given “proper supplies to clean areas, such as mops, brooms, buckets and disinfectant.” “Toothbrushes,” he added, “are strictly for the mouth.” Last October, Jackson began serving his two-and-a-half year sentence at Butner, where convicted con man Bernie Madoff and spy Jonathan Pollard are also doing time.

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[DigitalDrifter]

Yeah he needs to get out so he can continue to rip off taxpayers.


Jesse Jackson Jr. still eligible for government pension, disability pay

Ex-congressman Jackson is eligible to receive $8,700 dollars per month in disability pay due to his bipolar condition and could receive a partial federal pension of $45,000 per year once he reaches 65.

August 14, 2013 --
The ABC7 I-Team is following the money, from the jewelry, trips and clothing to the celebrity trinkets, all paid for by the Jacksons' "personal slush fund"-- to use the words of Washington's top federal prosecutor.
The assistant head of the FBI in Washington Wednesday night says of Jesse and Sandi Jackson, "They can hide no more." For years, they hid lavish spending of campaign money, but the I-Team has learned that U.S. officials plan for the government to make money off of some of their purchases, auctioning off some of those Jackson treasures. At the same though, that very same government may also be paying ex-congressman Jackson monthly disability, and later, a pension.

First the pensions, for both Jacksons. They were public employees: his work for the federal government since being elected to Congress in 1995; her work for the City of Chicago since being elected alderman in 2007.

Ex-congressman Jackson is eligible to receive $8,700 dollars per month in disability pay due to his bipolar condition and could receive a partial federal pension of $45,000 per year once he reaches 65.

While on the city council, Sandi Jackson had automatic pension contributions of more than $50,000 withdrawn from her pay, even though she chose not to be a member of the city pension fund.

The Jacksons spent some of the $750,000 in campaign funds on property-- some of which has already been forfeited to the government. Twenty-four items valued at more than $61,000; twelve items surrendered that are listed at more than $21,000, including some Michael Jackson memorabilia and a mink cape.

According to these records from the U.S. Marshal service, there is a guitar once owned by the dead pop star; a gold Rolex watch valued alone at $43,000; a Bruce Lee wall hanging and a pair of elk heads that once hung in the Jackson home. Much of it now headed for a rogues gallery auction block.

No date set yet for the government's Jackson family auction. If you are wondering why Mrs. Jackson won't receive a city pension, she wasn't on the job quite long enough. And the reason Mr. Jackson will receive only a partial pension is because his offenses were related to his official duties. That was part of pension reform legislation Congress passed in 2007-- legislation that Mr. Jackson voted in favor of.

Jesse Jackson Jr. still eligible for government pension, disability pay | abc7chicago.com

 

[Disir]

Nothing says two tier justice like the Jacksons. Name any other married couple that was able to serve their sentences in the same manner so that their kids are taken care of. That shit pisses me off.

 

[blastoff]

Dear Jesse, Jr. and Sandi...

Fuck off. And pass it along to Sr. too.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Corruption in a public official should be punished with public beheading. Kill a few thousand and maybe,. just MAYBE the rest will smarten up!

 

[jillian]

Corruption in a public official should be punished with public beheading. Kill a few thousand and maybe,. just MAYBE the rest will smarten up!

and you think you're better than jihadis how?

 

[Big Black Dog]

I love it when politicians go to jail. Especially liberal Democrats.