New Questions on Jackson Mistress
W A S H I N G T O N, Feb. 1 -- The woman who had anout-of-wedlock child with the Rev. Jesse Jackson was authorizedto use funds from one of his tax-exempt charitableorganizations to buy a Los Angeles house, The Washington Postsaid today.
The article cited a letter to be published Friday bysupermarket weekly the National Enquirer, which first amassedevidence of Jackson's affair.
The Post said a Jackson aide confirmed the existence of theletter Wednesday but said it had not been acted on. Jacksonspokesmen have consistently denied that Karin Stanford, 39 — former head of the Washington office of the civil rightsactivist's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and the mother of his child— used money from Jackson-affiliated charities to buy her$365,000 house in Los Angeles, the paper said. In the Sept. 10, 1999, letter from a top Jackson aide toStanford, Jackson's Citizenship Education Fund approved a$40,000 "draw" for Stanford against future consulting fees "forthe purpose of acquiring residential real estate financing,"according to the Post. But a Jackson spokesman in New York said the amount waslater changed to $35,000 and "therefore the letter was neveracted upon," the paper reported. It said the spokesman provideda copy of a CEF disbursement record showing separate paymentsto Stanford of $15,000 and $20,000, which he described ascovering moving expenses and contracted research work.
Stanford gave birth to a daughter in May 1999, months afterJackson began counseling then President Clinton over theMonica Lewinsky scandal.
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