●$10,105 worth of Bruce Lee memorabilia, including four separate purchases of items associated with the late martial-arts film hero.
●$14,200 in random Michael Jackson memorabilia.
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●$4,000 for a “Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen” guitar.
●$4,600 for a Michael Jackson fedora.●
In mid-November, when he announced his resignation from the House, Jackson signaled that he was in plea negotiations.
“I have made my share of mistakes. I am aware of the ongoing federal investigation into my activities and I am doing my best to address the situation responsibly, cooperate with the investigators,” he wrote in his resignation letter.
In the Blagojevich case, Raghuveer Nayak, who worked as a fundraiser for Blagojevich and Jackson, told investigators that Jackson instructed him to raise as much as $6 million for the governor’s campaign.
While Blagojevich ended up in federal prison in Colorado, the Justice Department never brought charges against Jackson in that case, but the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia pursued the campaign-finance allegations.
As the pressure built in the investigation and his family life imploded, Jackson eventually fled Washington for psychological treatment, abandoning Capitol Hill for several weeks without telling congressional leaders why he was absent. Later in the summer of 2012, his office announced that he was being treated for depression at the Mayo Clinic, whose doctors issued a more detailed statement in mid-August saying he suffered from bipolar disorder. Despite his months-long absence from the District, Jackson won reelection Nov. 6 with 71 percent of the vote.
Elected to succeed a scandal-ridden lawmaker 17 years ago, Jackson had broad ambitions beyond Chicago’s South Side-based 2nd Congressional District. In addition to being seen as a potential successor to Obama in the Senate, Jackson was touted as a potential Chicago mayor, Illinois governor or possibly even a presidential candidate, fulfilling the legacy of his father, the famed civil rights leader whose 1980s presidential bids were the first credible campaigns by a black politician for the White House.
As the investigations unfolded, Jackson’s family life crumbled. An affair he had with a Washington nightclub hostess became public, something he called “a private and personal matter between me and my wife.”
His wife recently resigned as a Chicago alderman amid investigations of her campaign finances, sparking renewed talks that Jackson would settle his own case.
Paul Kane contributed to this report.
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