FBI Surveillance Video Shows Democrat William Jefferson Accepting $100,000 Bribe

Here is FBI surveillance video showing former Louisiana Democrat Congressman William Jefferson accepting a briefcase with $100,000 from a woman who was wearing a wire. Wednesday, he was convicted on numerous corruption charges. The woman wearing the wire was a disgruntled businesswoman. Jefferson could face 20 years in prison. . . . . . (Watch Video)

I lived in New Orleans for 9 years and this creep along with 99% of the politicians there have gotten away with all kinds of corruption. I moved because of that, high taxes, and the third world environment that democrats had created. While he pulled the race card so often that it was worn, tattered and torn, I think race has a lot to do with this.

Democrats in New Orleans and the rest of Louisiana have created an atmosphere where, because they are black, you cannot question them, doubt them, vote against them or speak ill of them or you are branded a racist. It was so bad in New Orleans that if you were black, you could get away with murder...quite often. You could do what you wanted, to whomever you wanted and your skin color gave you a free pass.

Look at the Katrina evacuees who were scattered and the chaos they caused. Do you think the murders, rapes and robberies were not going on already in Orleans? Of course it was, they just never had the crimes punished previously...or if they did, they got out early, or got off completely because it would be racist to have more blacks than whites in prison.
I worked at a hospital downtown where we were picked off like flies with muggings, car jackings, and break ins. There were two distinc classes of black there and one was just as much a victim of racism and crime as the whites were. There was so much crime, it got to the point where you reported a crime only because you needed a police report for your insurance....the crimes never were pursued.

This all fed in to the notion that because I am black, I have a free pass to do what I want. Really, I am shocked that a politician actually got caught....the behavior is so common....the prosecution is soooooo rare.

And your experience is a prime example why we should all avoid going to New Orleans. Don’t give them any tourism dollars, don’t reward their corruption, don’t become a victim of the rampant crime they have there.

I’d absolutely love it if another city decided to start a big Mardi Gras celebration to give folks an alternative to the NOLA celebration.

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