If this is true, I think I know why he sounded so pissed at that press conference.

He still won’t be Senator, but if he dropped a dime on Blagojevich months ago, he’s pretty much in the clear on this:

ABC7 has learned that since late last summer, the congressman has worked with federal prosecutors, informing on an alleged Blagojevich administration scheme two and half years earlier.

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And sources tell ABC7 that Jackson has been in regular contact with the feds and has told the government that in 2003 Blagojevich denied the congressman’s wife Sandi an appointment as Illinois lottery director because Jackson would not donate $25,000 to the governor’s campaign fund.

I’m not sure who the sources are, because generally Fitzgerald runs a pretty tight ship, but if this story is accurate the distinguished gentleman from Illinois has been very ill served by all of this.