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Jackson's sweet union deal Some of the Rainbow/PUSH leader's employees have been paid with dues from hotel and restaurant workers international

The Rev. Jesse Jackson supports the union activities of hotel workers who scrub toilets and mop floors, but few of them know their union dues have paid some of his top aides, including his former mistress and his son.

The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union- a union with a long history of reputed ties to organized crime-has had this secret deal with Jackson for at least the last decade.

Jackson struck the deal with Edward T. Hanley Sr., the longtime president of the union that federal officials once described as one of the nation's four most corrupt.

Hanley, who died in a car accident last year, squandered the dues paid by his members-some of the country's ...

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