{"id":11659,"date":"2011-12-05T17:45:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11659"},"modified":"2011-12-05T17:45:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:45:21","slug":"committee-continuing-investigation-of-jesse-jackson-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11659","title":{"rendered":"Committee Continuing Investigation Of Jesse Jackson Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House Ethics Committee announced Friday it will continue its investigation into allegations <strong>Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.<\/strong> or someone acting on his behalf offered to raise campaign cash for then-Gov. <strong>Rod Blagojevich<\/strong> in exchange for a Senate appointment in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The committee had previously said it would determine by Friday what course its investigation of the Democrat and son of civil rights leader <strong>Jesse Jackson<\/strong> would take. The younger <strong>Jackson<\/strong> has said he expected to be exonerated.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the committee will continue looking into allegations involving <strong>Blagojevich<\/strong> and whether <strong>Jackson<\/strong> inappropriately used government resources to angle for an appointment. The committee said in a statement that continuing the investigation &#8220;does not itself indicate that any violation occurred.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Ethics Committee announced Friday it will continue its investigation into allegations Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. or someone acting on his behalf offered to raise campaign cash for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for a Senate appointment in 2008. The committee had previously said it would determine by Friday what course its investigation of [&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-11659","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\/11659","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=11659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}