US Representative Joe Sestak allegedly offered job by Obama to stay out of Senate election

May 28, 2010

US Representative, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, says that he was offered a job in the Obama administration if he would drop out of a Senate. Obama told journalists in a news conference that an official report on the allegations will be released "shortly".

Sestak made the allegations first in February. Media attention grew, however, only when he defeated Arlen Specter, the incumbent senator and White House-preferred candidate, in the Senate primary last week. Since then, there has been more pressure on the Obama administration to reveal what they discussed with Sestak.

Republican leaders have asked the Attorney General's office to review the legal implications of this job offer, but the Justice Department has rejected other requests to investigate or appoint a special prosecutor.