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To: SecularBull who wrote (131812)	3/14/2001 3:28:35 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Current events:..... Exclusive: Jackson Hit With Another Charge of Illegal Activity newsmax.com Jesse Jackson?s mounting legal problems continued to grow Tuesday, as the Federal Election Commission received another complaint against him, along with the Democratic National Committee and the Gore-Lieberman campaign. The American Conservative Union (ACU) filed the charges with the FEC, alleging that the self-styled civil rights leader, in cooperation with the Democratic Party and the Gore-Lieberman campaign, had violated the law on several counts, all of them with a focus on the use of Jackson?s organizations, including Citizenship Education Fund, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Keep Hope Alive PAC and Illinois Rainbow/PUSH. The charges include the following: That Jackson illegally used his tax-exempt groups to provide in-kind campaign contributions to the Democratic National Committee and the Gore-Lieberman campaign after receiving illegal contributions from the DNC and Gore-Lieberman. That Jackson applied corporate expenditures to fund and implement partisan "voter registration" and "get-out-the-vote" drives that specifically urged the election of the Gore-Lieberman ticket and other candidates, and coordinated those efforts with the DNC and Gore-Lieberman. That the Gore-Lieberman campaign illegally solicited and accepted in-kind contributions from Jackson?s corporations, citing this as "a criminal offense, subject to criminal penalties." That Jackson?s travel for partisan campaign purposes, with numerous appearances in more than 150 locations, was paid for by his tax-exempt corporations and reimbursed by the Democratic Party or Gore/Lieberman Inc. In one section of its filing, the ACU specifically alleges that Jackson?s groups were "reimbursed by the Democratic National Committee in the amount of $450,000." The conservative group is urging the commission to refer the complaint to the Justice Department for prosecution "as may be warranted." tom watson tosiwmee