Jackson Allies Offered to Raise $1.5 Million for Blagojevich to Appoint Jackson to the Senate

Secretly recorded tapes caught the Blagojevich brothers discussing several candidates for Obama’s vacant Senate seat following the 2008 presidential election, including U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Leaders from the Indian business community had offered to raise $1.5 million in exchange for giving Jackson the seat and Rod Blagojevich instructed his brother to reach out to them.

Read more: (Stacy St. Clair and Kristen Mack, “Brother Unfazed by Retrial,” Chicago Tribune, 08/18/2010)