I doubt it, but it s something the liberals would claim in a similar situation with a Republican mayor. He should be made to pay for that. Chester Davenport, the same man who benefited from the CBS-Viacom merger when Jesse withdrew his opposition on a similar promise. Then all was warm feelings and Jesse gets offended whenever anybody asks him about it. No one should ever wonder how Jesse became a millionaire with no visible source of income.
Extortion pays well.
At least on the scale in which he practices it. Liberals never mention things like the commutation of the death sentence of Henry Lee Lucas, whose case, then Texas Governor George W. Bush thought was a little thin, to life imprisonment. Lucas, many people will remember, confessed to many murders, just to make police look stupid when he later recanted them all. He was permanently connected to four cases, one a mother of three whose dismembered body was found with evidence pointing to Lucas. Another was Marie Andrews, whose nude body was found, having been stabbed, raped, then slashed.