Run Jesse Run: Junior now under investigation by feds for financial 'suspicious activity'

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL), who hasn't been seen in public in four months--he has been receiving treatment for depression--faces another battle.

From the Chicago Sun-Times:

Spelling potentially new trouble for U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., federal investigators have launched a probe into the South Shore congressman’s finances — a completely new area of scrutiny, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times.

The investigation — based in the Washington, D.C., FBI field office — is not related to the attempted sale of the U.S. Senate seat that figured in former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s corruption conviction, but is focusing on "suspicious activity" involving the congressman’s finances related to his House seat and the possibility of inappropriate expenditures, sources said.

The probe was active in the weeks prior to Jackson taking a leave from his U.S. House post on June 10, a leave his office ultimately attributed to his need for treatment for a bipolar disorder, the sources said.

It was unclear whether the probe involved the congressman’s official House spending account or his campaign finance account. But one source said it was an account monitored by Congress.

Junior has a Republican opponent in next month's election--Brian Woodworth. Click here to contribute to his campaign.

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