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* Reuters…
U.S. prosecutors say that a billionaire real estate developer from Macau accused of paying bribes to a former United Nations General Assembly president also gave gifts to former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., according to court papers.
In papers filed this week in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors said the developer, Ng Lap Seng, made gifts to a U.S. representative in return for introductions to U.S. officials and business people.
The prosecutors have not claimed that the gifts were illegal or identified the representative by name. But Ng’s lawyers in a motion on Monday said it was Jackson, an eight-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Illinois, and the son of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr.
John Collette, a lawyer for Jackson, declined to comment.
* Sun-Times…
The Chicago Sun-Times reported last month that the former Democratic congressman in 2015 was trying to enter into a cooperation deal with Southern District of New York prosecutors after telling them of “potential violations of law by him and others” in an unspecified case, according to a letter obtained by the newspaper.
The new court filing by Seng’s lawyers details prosecutors’ allegations that Seng paid Jackson both before and after Jackson was in Congress — and channeled money through his wife Sandi Jackson as part of a consulting agreement.
According to the May 1 filing, prosecutors were planning to introduce into evidence that “starting in or about 2009, the defendant [Seng] agreed to and did provide gifts and payments, including cash, a watch, theater tickets, hotel rooms, and meals, to a certain United States representative . . . in return for the representative agreeing to introduce the defendant to other United States officials and businesspeople in the United States.
“After the representative left Congress, the defendant agreed to and did continue to make payments to the representative, including by providing cash and directing payments to the representative’s wife, purportedly as part of a consultancy agreement.”
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, May 10, 17 @ 2:27 pm
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Triple J must have cut a nice deal. Anything dealing with big money, real estate, and NYC = Trump smoke.
Comment by Rocky Rosi Wednesday, May 10, 17 @ 2:33 pm
===The prosecutors have not claimed that the gifts were illegal…===
Did it influence any voting as a lawmaker or anything related to his official duties? What was the financial value of the “gifts”? There is a big grey area between unethical and illegal.
Comment by DuPage Wednesday, May 10, 17 @ 3:19 pm
Is there any worse legacy district than IL CD2?
Gus Savage to Mel Reynolds to J3. Woof.
Comment by ChrisB Wednesday, May 10, 17 @ 3:26 pm