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Offline Trini _2026

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Jesse Jackson Sued Over No-Show
« on: May 02, 2009, 06:44:04 AM »
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0501092jesse1.html

Jackson Sued Over No-Show

Lawsuit: Despite $75,000 fee, private jet, reverend skipped speech
 MAY 1--Want to book Jesse Jackson for a speech? Make sure you have $75,000 and a private jet available. That's what the reverend charged for a late-2007 speech in Trinidad, but then never showed for the appearance, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in Chicago. The AEI Speakers Bureau is suing Jackson for $100,000, claiming that his no-show cost the firm a $63,932 commission and left them with a $36,068 bill for a chartered private jet. Jackson's signed agreement with AEI, a copy of which you'll find below, called for him to address a November 2007 political rally for the United National Congress. According to a complaint filed in Cook County Circuit Court, Jackson "cited a desire to avoid the perception of showing favoritism to a Trinidad and Tobago political party as his reason for not fulfilling his contractual duties." It does not appear that Jackson pocketed his $75,000 fee. In addition to Jackson, AEI arranged paid speaking gigs at the gathering for Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, both of whom flew commercial to Trinidad.




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Re: Jesse Jackson Sued Over No-Show
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2009, 10:39:36 PM »
ok was going to post this

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Re: Jesse Jackson Sued Over No-Show
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2009, 06:32:30 AM »
de man blank de UNC and getting sued......doh play with Jack boy.

 

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