Posted on 05/27/2006 6:49:00 AM PDT by Libloather
Aide says Jefferson cooked up scheme
Assistant sentenced to 8 years in prison
Saturday, May 27, 2006
By Bill Walsh
Washington bureau
ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- A former aide to U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, said Friday that it was the congressman's idea to solicit bribes to promote a telecommunications deal in West Africa that began as a legitimate business venture.
"I've gone over it 10 million times in my head," Brett Pfeffer, 37, said at his sentencing in U.S. District Court. "I don't know why I didn't look him in the eye and say 'No.' "
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According to court records, Pfeffer served as the initial go-between for Jefferson in his dealings with a wealthy northern Virginia woman, Lori Mody, who ultimately agreed to invest money in a business deal in Nigeria. Mody would eventually become an FBI informant and tape her meetings with Jefferson, documents show.
Pfeffer, a legislative assistant to Jefferson from 1995 to 1998, was working at Mody's McLean, Va., investment firm in 2004 when Jefferson pitched a business opportunity. It involved Kentucky-based iGate Inc., which Jefferson was helping to launch its high-speed Internet technology and cable television service in West Africa.
Pfeffer proposed the deal to Mody, who ultimately sank $3.5 million into the venture. According to court records, Jefferson later told Pfeffer that to continue to push the deal, he wanted 5 percent to 7 percent of the new Nigerian company Mody set up and to have a member of his family put on the payroll for $2,500 to $5,000 per month. Prosecutors have estimated the value of the arrangement at between $400,000 and $1 million.
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Vernon Jackson, the CEO of iGate, has admitted paying more than $450,000 to a company controlled by Jefferson's family. He is scheduled to be sentenced in July.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Can the corruption of Billy Jeff take down the Skins as well? One can only hope. It's the story that keeps on givin'...
Dear Sir,
Please excuse me if I seem opportune, but I am a member of the out of power party in the United States Congress. I can influence legislation affecting millions of dollars in telecommunications legislation, but I need a Nigerian partner to assist me in transferring the funds to accounts set up in the United States in the names of my family members.
You come highly recommended as an upstanding and respected member of the Nigerian telecommunications industry. Millions of dollars are available to you, if you could assist me in transferring these moneys to my family members.
Of course he cooked it up. That is why he had all his money in the freezer.
" I don't know why I didn't look him the eye and say NO."
Because in New Orleans, it didn't seem out of the norm ... just business as normal. It wasn't the first time your boss was involved in corruption, moron -- nobody gets caught the *first* time they break the law.
Nicely done, but should have been all caps.
ROFLMAO!!
LOL !
I'm just SHOCKED this aide spilled the beans, the RATS usually love to roll over for other rats...WOW! Yes, Jeffy's goose is cooked!
It must be getting bad if a few lefties on a leftist network crack jokes on a fellow RAT...
"Can the corruption of Billy Jeff take down the Skins as well?"
Spoken like a Giants fan. Hail to the Redskins!
I wonder, since it looks so familiar this shakedown move, did Jesse advise William Jefferson in the construction of this larceny?
Probably Cong Jefferson got an email from Nigerian General Kachinga Cheatchusuckah-----and compassionately tried to help get Idi Amin's secret $60B gold stash in a Swiss bank vault out of the country.
I believe Mollahan is ranking member of the House Ethics Committee so we'll see him in action when they take up the Jefferson case ; )
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"Of course he cooked it up. That is why he had all his money in the freezer."
From piggy bank to Frigidaire......just another one of Pelosi's culture of corruption congress-creep. Diverting rescue help from Katrina's devastation to rescue his ice box loot. He should resign or be kicked out...but the spineless fellow weasels wont do it. Govt. sucks.
Didn't he resign from the Committee?
The trouble is: this guy voted with the Replicans more times than not.
With an ACU rating of 14, I think not.
The Democrat propaganda would have you believing that Jefferson is really a "closet conservative". But, in fact, he is a member in good standing of the Socialist Democrat caucus.
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