The money did not go directly in to his pocket but it looks like some did go indirectly in to his pocket and perhaps directly in to the pockets of his friends. Most of it went to special programs "for minorities" but of course Jesse is involved in many of those.
"Some of the allegations which are covered in the book Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson by
Kenneth R. Timmerman include:
During the late 1990s , it was revealed that Jackson's sons and Jackson himself would protest against large businesses until the business 'paid' a donation to one of Jackson's tax exempt corporations.
On several occasions, Jackson publicly opposed a major corporate merger until one or both of the merging companies 'paid' a donation to Jackson's tax exempt corporations. "
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"Once corporations have yielded to
Jackson's threats of bad publicity,
Jackson and his organizations get huge
kick-backs from his friends or the
companies he recommends.
Timmerman
gives the
merger
between GTE
and Bell
Atlantic (now
Verizon) as an
example.
When the
merger was
first
announced,
Jackson was
strongly against it. He approached the
companies and told them he would make
problems for them with the FCC unless
they gave some of Jackson's
organizations money.
All of a sudden, Jackson's organizations
received hundreds of thousands of
dollars from GTE and Bell Atlantic, and
Jackson changed his position on the
merger. African-American publisher
Hurley Green said in a May 1988 article
from The New Republic, "Any time Jesse
shows up now, it's going to cost you.""
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" From the beginning, Jackson's economic campaign has been somewhat tenuous
morally, mainly because his dealings with business look so much like
shakedowns. Typically, Jackson will target a corporation whose allegedly
unfair, or even racist, practices have gone unaddressed until discerned and
publicized by him. A deadline is set, by which time the company is to either
remedy its offending policies or face a Jackson-led boycott and a negative
publicity campaign. Stunned company officials often respond defensively to
this ultimatum at first, stoutly proclaiming their corporate devotion to
diversity and tolerance. Then there is a period of negotiation, followed by
a breakthrough and, finally, resolution. Jackson praises the company's
progressive journey, and relieved executives announce plans to become even
more diverse and tolerant, by directing business toward minority banks,
contractors, consultants, advertising firms, and so on.
Often, a contribution is also made to one of Jackson's organizations
(among them the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and the Citizenship Education Fund),
and usually the black-owned businesses that benefit from Jackson's campaign
become Rainbow/PUSH benefactors and personal associates of Jackson's, if
they aren't already. When A.T. & T. and TCI announced merger plans two years
ago, Jackson opposed the deal until the companies hired a minority-owned
investment bank (Blaylock & Partners) to float an eight-billion-dollar bond
offering. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that when Jackson rescinded his
objection A.T. & T. donated four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars to
Jackson's Citizenship Education Fund, and Blaylock gave thirty thousand
dollars. That same year, according to the Washington Post, Jackson granted
his support to the merger of the telecommunications companies SBC and
Ameritech, which together gave half a million dollars to the Citizenship
Education Fund.
Sometimes, Jackson or his family seems to benefit-at least,
indirectly-from these dealings. In the nineteen-eighties, Jackson led a
boycott against Anheuser Busch, the brewer of Budweiser, with the theme "Bud
Is a Dud." Anheuser Busch later became a donor to the Citizenship Education
Fund, and today much of the Budweiser quaffed in Chicago is distributed by
Jackson's sons Yusef and Jonathan, and a third partner, who were granted a
prized distributorship three years ago."
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