Ozio Restaurant and Lounge, 2010. (Aaron Leitko/The Washington Post) The scandal now surrounding Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is mostly a scandal about money. But as with so many other political imbroglios, there is also a woman in the story. U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP) She is Giovana Huidobro, a hostess at Ozio lounge on M Street NW, whom -- according to a new report from the Chicago Sun-Times -- the FBI interviewed last year while trying to determine if the Chicago Democrat asked a major fundraiser to pay then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for appointing him to a U.S. Senate seat. Why Huidobro? Because the fundraiser, Raghuveer Nayak, told investigators he twice paid for Huidobro to fly from Washington to Chicago at Jackson's request, the Sun-Times reported. After the story broke Tuesday, Jackson released a statement strongly denying Nayak's claim that the congressman asked him
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