Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass...

Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass calls Rev Jackson the "King of Beers." In 1995 Jackson asked his friend Ron Burkle to help his son realize a "lucrative" Budweiser distributorship forward the North and Northwest sides of Chicago, reports the Tribune. A year later, Yusef Jackson, Jesse Jackson's son met with Budweiser Brands Vice President August A. Busch IV, a friend of Burkle's. And in 1998 Yusef Jackson became the majority proprietor of the River North distributorship. Rev Jackson, who in the 1980 charged Anheuser-Busch with racial discrimination and l a national boycott against the firm, denies involvement in the deal.

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