Jesse Jackson Jr. & His Wife Sandi Are Struggling Financially Following Legal Woes
By Victor Trammell
An article written yesterday in the Chicago Sun-Times revealed that Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife Sandi are enduring some tough financial times following their recent court appearances.
Last week, both Jackson and his wife entered guilty pleas to federal charges related to their illegal use of Jesse’s congressional campaign funds. The couple faces years in prison at their sentencing hearings scheduled for this summer.
Now the fallen political couple are living in their Washington D.C. home while struggling to make ends meet. Jesse Jackson Jr. is the son of a famous civil rights advocate and made his way all the way up to the U.S. House representing his congressional district in the state of Illinois. His wife Sandi was an alderman for the city of Chicago Illinois.
Far removed from their days of opulence and grace, Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife are unable to pay the living expenses they have in Washington D.C. Both of them could lose their licenses to practice law since they pleaded guilty to felony crimes. With prison time looming over both of their heads, the couple is also desperately trying to figure out a financial plan to care for their two children aged 9 and 12.
There has been talk of Jesse Jackson Jr. writing a memoir but finding a publisher will be a tall task if the former congressman is not able to publish the book himself. However, Michael Sneed’s article for the Chicago Sun-Times did talk about a financial life line the couple may indeed have.
Jesse Jackson Jr.’s brother Yusef is a successful businessman who has made his longest green in the beer distribution business. According to Sneed’s source for his Sun-Times article, Yusef was the one “who drove Jesse to Tucson when he was falling apart mentally due to the federal investigation.” Sneed’s source claimed that Yusef also “has been there to calmly help his brother navigate through his emotional nightmare.”
When it rains, it most certainly pours. With Jesse Jackson Jr. or his wife being unable to earn income, it certainly sets up an adverse situation for their children especially. If both of them have to serve jail time, hopefully their families will come together and rally for their children financially when they are away.
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WHO GIVES a sh8t!!!!
Not the hundreds of dead and walking dead doomed drug addicts in their congressional ward.
I remember that father of his taking $2000 from me in donations, and that wasn’t enough to get me a little support for my job discrimination. Creep didn’t even send me a letter.
Using a civil rights post just to get your nitwit family members power and position is not something a leader does!
We should be reminded and aware of the consequences for stealing.
His life woes are called “consequences” for his poor choices. I don’t feel the least bit sorry for him or his wife. I do feel bad for their kids. What can I say? He learned from the best. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. His dad is scum.
Why feel sorry for HIS kids, when he had not one ounce of sympathy for the youngest girl child of his father, and called her a “b*****d.” Whose the b*****d now?
Why feel sorry for someone who had the power to stop the murder of babies and teenagers in his ward, and used none of it??? He had not one ounce of sympathy for all of the mothers.
This guy’s ward is akin to what hitler did to the jews, he has done so much damage to blacks who elected him.
He is paid $174,000 per year, he is given a budget to pay his staff (wife) He works about 80 days out of a year.
I predict he get at least 5 years!
I also predict some will call what ever he get racism! Any bets?
@ Onesilverbac: I also predict when JJr or Sandi get out of jail, they will run for office and the people will vote them back in….we love a good comeback story…thieves, crackheads, or not….
It’s unreal the self-destruction of these two HIGHLY education, extremely priviledged individuals. It’s so ironic that Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. has spent his like lecturing to the masses about their behavior when he should have been serving as an example to his son. I have NO sympathy for these two. I could see it if he used the money to help poor kids go to better schools or get great paid internships, no, they spent it on bling and an adulterous affair (Jr.).
As usual, it seems that none of us are able to find excellent lawyers to defend us!!! I am sure they put pressure on them to plead guilty. This is the game of lousy lawyers who refuse to do their work!!!
So right he should have gotten some tips from daddy,he’s been shak’in people down for years! I am suprized though that I haven’t heard anyone whine’in bout it ain’t none of his fault and whitey had a hand in bring’in him down. How do you think hiz bro. got that Budwiser distributorship,daddy shake em down! I didn’t hear anythang about his mental illness till they started investigating him. He be aright in prison if he just take his meds and sag hiz pants he make a good pillow muncher.
“I didn’t hear anythang about his mental illness till they started investigating him.” – EXACTLY!!!!!
Just a ploy to gain sympathy from the community. They see that plan didn’t sell, so on to the next one……….Use his
“mental condition” as the final selling point to sway the judge to give him the least amount of jail time. It is no coincidence that the judge appointed to this case has “ties” to JJ Sr. C’mon now? I wouldn’t be surprised if he gave Jr. a year and a half at the most. 3-5 years naw, his daddy might accept a beating to the family name but definately not a fall. He’s been in the arena way too long to let that happen.
lol.pillow muncher
I’m not going to “pour water on a drowning man.”
Wow…I’m speechless. But the apple truly doesn’t fall far from the tree!
mr trammel—you suck as a journalist and your writing skills are below par.we live in a world governed by the Internet.you possess the IQ of a middle school student.your interpretations of stories wriitten by professional journalists is pitiful. Your false assumptions about the Jackson family and their future,their kids and their future is silly.if you do not have a clue about your own future ,how can you be so confident about predicting the outcomes of the Jackson family drama. In the future when you read an article of interest to black people.simply shut up and pass on the link.I beg you dr Watkins please get rid of these silly and backward folk parading as as serious journalists.I am ashamed that a black blog could be so National Inquirer in it’s mission.This blog feeds black people a daily dose of bad news and black dysfunction
why should we care about mr .Jackson and his wife struggles ,we pay taxes not by choice,but they lived an extravagant life on our backs,so like all the other black politicians who are sending blacks to h**l in a hand-basket,let him work for peanuts and pay for his greed and dishonesty. we all have to pay the piper sometimes.and the plea deal he got i feel was a bargain.they get no sympathy from me.
Who the h**l cares, put them nasty dirty criminals in JAIL. Forget about them sack of you know what.
@Pat………good grief. He’s GUILTY of doing what he’s been accused of. What do you expect a lawyer to do? Turn back the clock? Why should this nimrod get away with what he did?
Sad, very sad situation, not good for both mother and father to become felony-laden convicts in prison.
I dont know wher some of you back wood dumb coloreds come from. Read Jesse Jrs contributions. You are so enslaved that all this talk is dancing to masters music. Jesse Jackson Jr. propesed the statue for Rosa Parks, Emancipation Hall naming, Minimum wages. Dont be so slow and laearn when you drag your brother down it is a curse on you. Stop it donnt be used by the enemy to talk about your own people. Stop dancing to Masters And Boyces music. Be Blessed and show love, tollerence and patience. Stop being stupid. God is love.
@Dorothy:
I hear you loud and clear, BUT let’s keep it righteous…Messy Jessy KNEW he was doing WRONG, and so did his wife! You can do a million good deeds, but once you do something wrong, the WRONG will stand out more than the good deeds.
Messy Jessy bought a cracker ‘ho, a rolex, minks, plane tickets, and other materialistic items. Do you think his wife didn’t know about this? OF COURSE SHE DID! She was being showered with material wealth also, therefore, she kept quiet, too!
How many cracker males do you see buying Black women expensive gifts and what-have-you? NONE! They will s.ex them, and GET RID OF THEM! Therefore, I have no pity for Messy Jessy, or his wife!
Case in point: If you had a ‘good’ husband, who showered you with gifts, but later you found out he was cheating with a caucasoid female, had a baby by her, and was showering her with expensive gifts and what not; was his ‘good’ deeds in vain, or would you divorce him?
I ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER…
You know the meaning of the word ‘vain’…it means USELESS!!!
All the good deeds Messy Jessy did were USELESS because he just fronted to keep doing what he was doing, which was…FVCKIN’ UP!!!
CHECK!
By the way, Messy Jessy was a xtian, right? Therefore, why did he do those dirty deeds?
Was he dealing in dirt, and stealing in the name of the lawd, like the rest of those poli(tricksters)?
‘god’ AIN’T SHYT, but a devil!!!
I believe that the Jackson’s need our prayers and support at this time. We have all made bad decisions, and have had to pay for them, or are paying for them now. Whether they have been very , very, small mistakes, or large ones, we have ALL made decisions that we MUST pay for. My hope is that they will be all the better human brings as a result of their mistake, and that they will be examples to the world of what NOT to do.