Culture of Corruption: Businessman Pleads to Bribing Congressman

AP Wires ^ | 5-2-2006 | AP Wires

[Zon]

The job responsibilities of the politician and bureaucrat calls for them to commit to honest principles, high integrity and honest ethics. Yet they are held -- often by their own ethics committee (what a sham) --  to a much lower standard than you and I and their constituents.

[TaxRelief]

Sept. 13, 2005- Amid the chaos and confusion that engulfed New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck, a congressman used National Guard troops to check on his property and rescue his personal belongings-- even while New Orleans residents were trying to get rescued from rooftops, ABC News has learned.

On Sept. 2 --five days after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast --Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., who represents New Orleans and is a senior member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, was allowed through the military blockades set up around the city to reach the Superdome, where thousands of evacuees had been taken.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1123495&page=1

Many have speculated that he had damning evidence that he felt compelled to move rather than abandon.