Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) told the Chicago Sun-Times on Monday that he didn’t direct fundraisers to give $1.5 million in campaign contributions to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich if he agreed to let Jackson fill Barack Obama’s seat in the Senate back in 2008.Rajinder Bedi, a fund-raiser and onetime state worker, testified at Blagojevich’s trial last week that he met Jackson and another fund-raiser at an election meeting just before the 2008 election, the newspaper reports. A few hours later, Bedi (now a government witness) met with the Blagojevich camp to offer $1 million in exchange for Jackson’s appointment.
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