The Justice Department has been investigating Jefferson's involvement in telecommunications deals in Africa and elsewhere. The House Ethics Committee launched an investigation of him last week.
Vernon Jackson of Louisville, Kentucky, pleaded guilty in federal court this month to bribing the congressman with more than $400,000 in payments, company stock and a share of the profits to promote a Kentucky company's high-tech business ventures in Africa. (Full story)
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I don't get it. If a man has pled guilty to bribing a congressman then the congressman must be guilty of accepting bribes. Why hasn't the congressman been charged or indicted for bribery? Why isn't this congressman in jail or out of jail on bond? Why hasn't he even been arrested? It seems to me if the government agents had the proof that the first man bribed the congressman then the congressman is guilty of accepting bribes!