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Jackson's Group Paid Ex-Aide
By William Claiborne
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 1, 2001 ; Page A03
CHICAGO, Jan. 31 -- A woman with whom Jesse L. Jackson fathered
a child during an extramarital affair had approval to use funds
from one of Jackson's tax-exempt charitable organizations to buy
a house in Los Angeles, according to correspondence confirmed by
a Jackson aide today.
According to a Sept. 10, 1999, letter from a top Jackson aide to
Karin Stanford, former head of the Washington office of the
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Jackson's Citizenship Education Fund
(CEF) approved a "draw" of $40,000 for Stanford against future
consulting fees "for the purpose of acquiring residential real
estate financing."
Stanford, 39, gave birth to a daughter in May 1999, months after
Jackson began counseling then-President Bill Clinton over the
Monica S. Lewinsky scandal. Jackson, who is married, has
acknowledged fathering the child and has asked forgiveness of his
supporters.
A copy of the letter, signed by Janice L. Mathis, CEF board
member and Rainbow/PUSH general counsel, appears in the upcoming
edition of the National Enquirer, due out Friday. It was the
Enquirer that first broke the story last month about Jackson's
extramarital affair.
Previously, spokespersons for Jackson had offered various
explanations for the payment, describing it as moving expenses,
an advance on contracted work and as severance pay. But none of
the explanations included assistance in buying a house as a
reason, and Jackson aides have consistently and emphatically
denied that Stanford bought a $365,000 house in Los Angeles with
money from Rainbow/PUSH-affiliated charities.
Mathis did not return phone calls today, but John Scanlon, a
Jackson spokesman in New York, confirmed that Mathis wrote the
Sept. 10 letter. But he said the amount was changed from $40,000
to $35,000 and "therefore the letter was never acted upon." In
addition, Jackson is paying Stanford $3,000 monthly of his own
money in child support, aides say.
Scanlon provided a copy of a CEF disbursement record showing an
"employee reimbursement" of $15,000 to Stanford and another
$20,000 payment for "consulting services." With some other
expense reimbursements, the total for that pay period was
$36,181.30.
Scanlon said the $15,000 was for moving expenses and the $20,000
was payment for contracted research work, which he said has been
completed by Stanford. The work, he said, included writing
papers on the digital divide between whites and blacks and on
Federal Communications Commission licensing in minority
communities.
Scanlon said the question of how Stanford spent the money was
irrelevant because she was free to dispose of it as she wished.
However, he said she insists she did not use the money on the
house.
"If she wanted to buy a car, a house or take a trip to the moon,
whatever she chose to do with the money was her business,"
Scanlon said.
The Enquirer article includes a reproduction of another letter
from Mathis to Stanford, dated November 1999, which is almost
identical to the Sept. 10 letter except that it omits the
reference to an advance against consulting fees and simply says
the money is for securing house financing.
Scanlon said that letter was never sent because it was
"redundant" and that in any case the issue had been resolved in
the meantime with the agreement to change the $40,000 payout to
$35,000. He said there had been a disagreement over the amount
to be paid to Stanford, but he did not provide details of the
dispute.
Rainbow/PUSH tonight also released a copy of a consulting
contract between CEF and Stanford, dated Dec. 15, 1999, calling
for $20,000 in compensation for research work on a "media and
telecommunications project."
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