Overview

• The Yankees say they conducted the most thorough background check of scouting director Damon Oppenheimer’s 23-year tenure, with owner Hal Steinbrenner’s sign-off and support from Jewish officials including team president Randy Levine.
• As part of that process, Jackson disclosed the incident to clubs and completed a five-week Holocaust and antisemitism course designed by Yeshiva University graduate student Ann Squicciarini at the urging of Elliot Steinmetz.
• Jackson, who says he was blackout drunk during the 2021 act as a Nebraska freshman, was fined by the university, required to do community service and assigned online sensitivity training.
• His record also includes a 2024 case in Utah that was reduced from DUI to misdemeanor impaired driving after he completed community service, substance-abuse training and paid fines.
• The Yankees signed Jackson for a $147,500 bonus, well below the $411,100 slot value, and assigned him to High-A Hudson Valley after the fifth-round selection.