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UPS believed they had a big, big problem. Individuals were receiving packages with racial slurs and epithets. Inside some of the packages were more offensive messages written on paper bearing the UPS logo. Initially, it appeared that UPS employees were targeting prominent blacks. Among those who received offensive packages were the Rev. Jesse Jackson; his son, US Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr (D-IL); US Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL); Kweisi Mfume, NAACP president; Deval Patrick, US Attorney in charge of the civil rights division; and two African-American newspapers in Washington. Another person receiving offensive packages was Angela L. Jackson, a Chicago distributor of African-American art and a law student at William Mitchell College of Law.
In February, supposedly incensed at the racial slurs on the packages being sent to her, Jackson wrote to US Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL) and other black members of Congress requesting assistance in proceeding legally against UPS. Jackson was seeking damages of $150,000.
An investigation ensued.
The result was a nine-count indictment charging Jackson will sending herself and the others the packages in at attempt to extort UPS. The indictment also charged that Jackson placed phone orders in the names of UPS employees for the types of merchandise that would support their being involved in racial hate groups. But even though she used aliases, Jackson left an extensive paper trail leading straight to her door. She’s been charged with five counts of mail fraud and four counts of wire fraud.
At the same time, another Pandora’s box opened for Jackson. She was accused of a credit card scheme aimed at discrediting a Chicago police sergeant who arrested her in 1996 for spitting on him. Authorities say that she used her own credit cards to purchase mail order items in the Sergeant’s name, trying to make it appear that he had taken her credit card during the process of arresting her.
Just one more little matter for the courts to straighten out.
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