{"id":11090,"date":"2011-11-03T14:12:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11090"},"modified":"2011-11-03T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T16:22:15","slug":"jesse-jackson-jr-i%e2%80%99ll-be-%e2%80%98vindicated%e2%80%99-in-ethics-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11090","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson, Jr.: I\u2019ll Be \u2018Vindicated\u2019  In Ethics Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KANKAKEE, Ill<\/strong>.\u00a0 &#8211; <strong>U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.<\/strong> is predicting he\u2019ll be \u201cvindicated\u201d by an ethics investigation into whether he or someone on his behalf offered to raise funds for ex-Illinois Gov.<strong> Rod Blagojevich<\/strong> in return for an appointment to <strong>President Barack Obama\u2019s<\/strong> vacated Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be clear. I believe in the American system of justice,\u201d <strong>Jackson,<\/strong> a Democrat, said Saturday at a Kankakee County NAACP dinner. \u201cThe process is continuing, but in the end I believe I will be vindicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House Ethics Committee announced earlier this month that it would resume a probe that began before <strong>Blagojevich\u2019s<\/strong> trial. The panel had agreed to abide by a Justice Department request to take no action in the investigation, which is normal practice when the department is concerned a congressional inquiry interferes with its own investigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jackson,<\/strong> who has not been charged, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANKAKEE, Ill.\u00a0 &#8211; U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is predicting he\u2019ll be \u201cvindicated\u201d by an ethics investigation into whether he or someone on his behalf offered to raise funds for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in return for an appointment to President Barack Obama\u2019s vacated Senate seat. \u201cLet me be clear. I believe in the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}