Former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to 30 months in prison for using $750,000 in campaign money for living expenses, clothes and luxury items.
Jackson was scolded by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, saying that he and his wife, Sandi Jackson, used campaign funds as a “personal piggy bank.”
“As a public official, you are supposed to live up to a higher standard of ethics and integrity,”
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