William Jefferson's lawyers must work to counteract jurors' impressions of pictures, such as this one, showing $90,000 stuffed in his freezer.
Posted on 07/19/2009 10:39:14 AM PDT by Libloather
William Jefferson defense to take stage soon
by Bruce Alpert, The Times-Picayune
Saturday July 18, 2009, 8:20 PM
ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- Now, it's the defense team's turn.
**SNUP**
On Tuesday, jurors heard satellite radio executive Noah Samara say he was a longtime friend of the congressman's and happy to hire Jefferson's daughter to draw up the papers for an oil deal the two were pursuing. But he said he drew the line when the congressman suggested he also give her equity ownership in the venture.
A day later, it was Folsom oil executive John Melton who said he drew up an arrangement that would give Jefferson's brother Mose a 3 percent interest in a marginal field project the two had discussed for Nigeria, but not the "upfront" money he says the congressman requested.
"He looked at it (the contract) and dropped it on his desk (and said), 'This won't do, ' " Melton told the jury.
And, on Friday, lobbyist James Creaghan said he paid bribes to Jefferson disguised as payments to family-owned businesses in return for Jefferson's help with three separate African business deals.
'Greedy and grasping'
Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor who has been following the case, said, "The jury may wonder how a member of Congress can discharge his public duties and have these private deals and how they can be separated."
Stephanie Gallagher, a former federal prosecutor who now practices law in Baltimore, agreed.
"The jurors may have difficulty believing that on each and every one of those occasions, the former congressman was on the 'private' side of that fine line, " Gallagher said.
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Gotta love those “green” politicians.
“If the freezer doesn’t fit, you must acquit”.
Yesterday my cousin and an old family friend were talking about the Republicans in congress being a bunch of crooks. I asked for an example and he brought up the oil companies making so much money because they had republican congressmen on their boards. When I brought up William Jefferson and his “cold cash” the response was who cares about some congressman in La. I just thought to myself how much the media brain washes people.
Jefferson is just the tip of the bribe taking Congress critters.
let’s nail Murtha next and then Rangel or Barney.
..............let’s nail Murtha next and then Rangel or Barney..................
Please let’s not forget Chris Dodd,
and the biggest Constitutional fraud since 1776 - Zer0
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