No surprise from the usual grifters.
Rev. Jackson asks Biden to pardon Jesse Jr.The same day Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, the Rev. Jesse Jackson wrote to the president seeking pardons for his son, former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., and his former daughter-in-law.
“His children — my grandchildren — would do well and find hope in seeing both their father and their mother, former Chicago Alderwoman Sandra Stevens Jackson, receive forgiveness,” the Civil Rights leader wrote, adding he’ll keep Biden “in prayer” as he considers the “power of forgiveness.” The two-page letter is
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Jesse Jackson Jr. spent 30 months in prison for wire and mail fraud in 2012. Sandi Jackson served a year for filing false tax returns. The former congressman had already stepped down from elected office for health reasons when he pleaded guilty to illegally spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses, including a Rolex watch.
In an interview with Playbook, Jesse Jackson Jr. says when he walked out of the prison doors, he never asked President Barack Obama for a pardon, choosing instead to advocate for “a mass pardon for millions of men and women who have paid their debt to society in full,” he said.
A few years ago, Jackson said his father and California Congresswoman Maxine Waters urged him to fill out the documentation to seek a full pardon.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/12/05/rev-jackson-asks-biden-to-pardon-jesse-jr-00192757
