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A detention hearing takes place today for a political consultant to San Francisco State Senator Leland Yee, caught up with the senator in an F-B-I corruption sting.

Keith Jackson faces charges of fraud, gun-running and a murder-for-hire scheme.

Jack Detsch reports, the consultant has been a fixture in San Francisco politics for two decades.

[[Keith Jackson began his political career at thirty-two, winning election to the Board of Education on a platform of "family values."

"He had not really been involved in the School District at all before his election.That's Jill Wynns [Wins], also elected to the Board in 19-94. She says Jackson, a political novice, wasn't up to the task. "So when he got elected people were surprised. He came to the board not very well prepared."

And... Jackson resigned three years later, briefly taking a job with the city's Recycling Department.

He resurfaced in 20-08, when developer Lennar [LEN-arr] hired him to champion the Hunter's Point Shipyard project in the black community.

Jim Ross, a San Francisco-based consultant, says that Jackson had credibility as an organizer in the neighborhood. “Of the consultants or the people that you might reach out to and hire, especially in the Western Addition on the Bayview/Hunter's Point Neighborhood, Keith would be really high on that list.”

Ross says in 20-10, Jackson abruptly left the political scene. According to the F-B-I affidavit, that's right around the time he began talking to Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow... also arrested in the case.

For K-Q-E-D News, I’m Jack Detsch.]]