The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    You Dirty Rat: Jesse Jackson Jr. Informed FBI of Blago's Gambit

    It's hitting the headlines from the WaPo to the HuffPo.  In a terribly fun twist, Jesse Jackson Jr. has apparently been an informant to the FBI about Blagojevich's pay-to-play scheme since this past summer.  This information has just surfaced, so there's no telling yet what this will come to mean exactly.  Does this mean that Jackson's supposed offer could have been part of an FBI sting?  At this time, Jackson maintains that he's been told by the FBI that he's not under investigation.  Perhaps this is part of the reason why?

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