Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterJesse Jackson Jr. entangled in Ill. gov. scandal (AP)
Published 12/11/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - Four days before the election, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich claimed someone came to him with a deal about filling Barack Obama's soon-to-be open U.S. Senate seat.
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