{"id":19558,"date":"2013-02-11T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19558"},"modified":"2013-02-11T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:48:40","slug":"jesse-jackson-jr-reportedly-faces-jail-time-over-campaign-finance-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19558","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson Jr. Reportedly Faces Jail Time Over Campaign Finance Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jesse Jackson Jr.<\/strong> is considering a plea deal from federal authorities who are investigating whether he misused campaign funds.<\/p>\n<p>The former representative may serve prison time if he accepts the deal. \u201cSignificant jail time is now definitely a part of the deal,\u201d said a source close to the probe. \u201cBut I think [<strong>Jackson\u2019s <\/strong>wife] <strong>Sandi<\/strong>, feels like she was thrown under the bus by her husband, \u201d now that a separate probe has begun on her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sandi Jackson<\/strong> reportedly was shocked by the campaign finance abuse disclosures against her husband, who is accused of spending $40,000 on a Rolex with campaign funds.<\/p>\n<p>This disclosure follows in the wake of an exclusive report Tuesday by political reporter <strong>Natasha Korecki<\/strong>, revealing the feds\u2019 financial probe of the once-politically powerful <strong>Jackson<\/strong> couple has evolved into two separate investigations, with federal authorities now taking an independent look at former Ald. <strong>Sandi Jackson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Jackson Jr. is considering a plea deal from federal authorities who are investigating whether he misused campaign funds. The former representative may serve prison time if he accepts the deal. \u201cSignificant jail time is now definitely a part of the deal,\u201d said a source close to the probe. \u201cBut I think [Jackson\u2019s wife] Sandi, [&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-19558","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\/19558","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=19558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}