-Caveat Lector-
TIME TO AUDIT JACKSON INC.
New York Post-Sunday, April 1, 2001
By ROD DREHER
NOW is the time for IRS agents to seize the records of Jesse
Jackson's non-profit Citizenship Education Fund.
There is credible reason to believe - though as yet no proof -
that Jackson may have used CEF to launder a $450,000 payoff to
Karin Stanford, his former mistress.
The National Enquirer this week, quoting an anonymous former
Jackson intimate, reported that figure as the amount Jackson paid
Stanford to go away, much of it allegedly raised from a circle of
rich cronies.
I know the Enquirer's source, and can certify that this person is
in a position to know what he's talking about. And this
information dovetails precisely with what my own well-placed
sources have been telling me for two months about the alleged
deal.
As my informants tell it, an "emergency" appeal went out in the
fall of 1999 from a nationally prominent Jackson lawyer to a tiny
coterie of wealthy African-Americans who had given generously to
Rainbow/PUSH in the past.
"Calls went out to the people Jesse likes to call 'The
Partners,'" says one source. "They were asked to give, and they
wanted a tax advantage. If they got it, at least some of the
money they gave had to have gone through CEF."
Again, there is no proof that these donations were passed through
CEF, or were made at all. Stanford's lawyer specifically denied
to a Post reporter that such a payment was made.
Then again, if you had been given $450,000 under the table, some
or all of it in cash, how likely would you be to go public with
it? The tax man doesn't smile on that sort of thing.
Maybe this allegation is untrue. But it's entirely believable,
given how evasive and deceptive the Jackson camp has been about
CEF's finances and Jackson's financial arrangements with his
ex-mistress.
Last week, to cite the latest of many examples, the Chicago
Tribune broke the news that the civil-rights big had a friendly
Chicago union local put Stanford on its payroll.
The IRS should compare CEF's tax returns with those of Jesse's
rich "Partners," to see if any of them contributed to the
non-profit entity in the fall of 1999, and then deducted the
donations from their personal and business filings.
Only about 10 people qualify as Jesse's "Partners." Call me, IRS
worker bees, and I'll give you the names.
If The Partners all cut checks to CEF at the same time, and the
organization can't account for the money, that would go a long
way toward documenting that the tax-exempt CEF - the recipient of
millions of dollars in corporate donations - is exactly what its
critics have long charged: a Jesse Jackson slush fund.
An IRS audit would clear the air, and let us know once and for
all just how clean Jesse, Inc., is.
So what's holding the tax cops back?
For that matter, what is holding Jackson's corporate sugar
daddies - Viacom, SBC Ameritech, Verizon, AT&T, Citigroup and
others - back from publicly disassociating themselves from his
racket?
And finally, what on earth is holding The New York Times back on
this story?
Last Monday, after having its rear end kicked up and down
Broadway by The Post for two months on this story (to say nothing
of the reporting by the Times's out-of-town rivals), the Grey
Lady finally discovered that - lo! - some people are accusing
Jesse Jackson of having done unpleasant things.
So we got a Page One puff piece that depicted the roaming
reverend as a down-but-not-out fighter. Jackson's publicist could
hardly have been happier.
The Times has stored its courage on the Jesse Jackson scandal in
the same place it has hidden its courage on the Jesse Dirkhising
story. God forbid it should have to report news seen as
unflattering to favored liberal icons or sacrosanct minorities.
Hate to break it to the neutered Jackson lapdogs on West 43rd,
but it's only going to get worse for their favorite son.
Rumors of a coming "60 Minutes II" bombshell are rife. And this
latest round of damaging charges comes as Stanford is engaged in
high-stakes negotiations to force Jackson to give their love
child her proper due.
Reliable sources say that when Jackson revealed his income in
that sweaty Chicago press conference last month, a shocked
Stanford realized he'd been less than forthcoming with her about
his true worth. That's when she started pressing Jackson for a
larger settlement.
Other disaffected Jackson employees are said to be impressed by
how Stanford is leveraging her experiences with Jackson, and are
considering what to do with their own knowledge of the reverend's
indiscretions.
Hang on. This is about to get real interesting.
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