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Jackson Jr. Talks About Blagojevich Trial
CHICAGO (AP) -- Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is speaking about potentially damaging details that emerged in ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich's recent corruption trial.

Prosecutors said then that a former state official told them Jackson attended a 2008 meeting where an Indian-American businessman offered to raise $1 million for Blagojevich's campaign. Prosecutors allege the fundraising would have been in exchange for Blagojevich appointing Jackson to President Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat.

On Friday, Jackson told WLS Radio's ``The Don Wade and Roma Show'' that he was at the meeting but never heard talk about a donations-for-Senate-seat exchange. The Chicago Democratic says the men at one point began speaking a foreign language.

Jackson says prosecutors must not have evidence linking him to misdeeds or they'd have charged him. He added defiantly: ``If I'm a conspirator _ bring it on.''

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09 17 10 by Newsroom
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