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Lawmaker Accused of Hiding $90G in Freezer - Filing: Tape Shows Lawmaker Taking Money
YAHOO NEWS ^ | 21 MAY 2006 | AP

Posted on 05/21/2006 2:06:06 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded, according to a court document released Sunday. Agents later found the cash hidden in his freezer. At one audiotaped meeting, Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., chuckles about writing in code to keep secret what the government contends was his corrupt role in getting his children a cut of a communications company's deal for work in Africa


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: 109th; coldcash; corruptdems; culturecorruption; cultureofcorruption; democratlouisiana; democrooks; dnc; jefferson; williamjefferson
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To: gov_bean_ counter
The Dems have thrown this Black guy under the bus.

Maybe the Dems should find something else to throw him under. Appearantly the buses don't move too well down there.

81 posted on 05/21/2006 9:03:48 PM PDT by uptoolate
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"getting his children a cut of a communications company's deal"

It's always for the children.

82 posted on 05/21/2006 9:08:25 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: Kaslin
"I think it makes it very difficult for the Democrats to try to frame a message on this issue without appearing as complete hypocrites,"

I don't think the dems care how hypocritical they are. See for example SanFranNan, who keeps braying about the "culture of corruption" with nary a nod to her own party's "corrupts" (if that's a noun).

83 posted on 05/21/2006 10:08:20 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: deport

Double Bump


84 posted on 05/21/2006 10:23:52 PM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: tbird5

Yep...the pimp Rush will love this because this TIME it was a Dem...

But you and I both know...Repubs and Dems are both slimey corupt pieces of crap don't we?

Rush is nothing more than a pimp...selling his snake oil...


85 posted on 05/21/2006 10:24:34 PM PDT by antaresequity (PUSH 1 FOR ENGLISH - PUSH 2 TO BE DEPORTED)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Except for this Yahoo! article, there's been barely a peep about this in the mainstream press.

It's been on FNC throughout the day.

86 posted on 05/21/2006 10:32:07 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: Howlin

I remember hearing about the "money in the freezer" part of this story a few years ago.


87 posted on 05/21/2006 10:33:10 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: new yorker 77

If the MSM were fair we would get a year of non-stop stories out of this.


88 posted on 05/21/2006 10:33:57 PM PDT by Brimack34
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

COLD,hard cash


89 posted on 05/21/2006 10:36:35 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!)
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To: PISANO
This bozo will be re-elected!!......and if convicted and after time spent in prison, runs for office again, he will win..........over ANY Republican!
He can be impeached. Impeachment stops him from running.
His actions, and more importantly, his conduct, warrant impeachment.
90 posted on 05/21/2006 10:53:47 PM PDT by philman_36
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To: lt.america

Most congressmen are heads of small businesses. That is their friends and relatives all get jobs in Washington. Plus, if you look at this one limo service, it looks like you get free ho's too.


91 posted on 05/21/2006 11:07:04 PM PDT by staytrue (Moonbat conservatives-those who would rather have the democrats win.)
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To: kcvl

I'm just glad they did not find a dead body in the freezer.


92 posted on 05/21/2006 11:07:45 PM PDT by staytrue (Moonbat conservatives-those who would rather have the democrats win.)
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To: txrangerette; Rockitz

You don't have to be a hoodlum as you imply that poster was to realize that US trade policy and much of our foreign policy (ex-terrorism issues) is geared towards the interests of the fortune 100. "follow the money" may sound cliche but it is almost always a good rule when wondering why something is done.

Surely you don't think that GE, microsoft, Intel, Walmart, etc., have only the same amount of influence in washington AND WITH YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE that you do?


93 posted on 05/22/2006 3:11:11 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: Rockitz

he must not have realized he was on film taking money when he released that, or perhaps he is simply in denial.


94 posted on 05/22/2006 3:12:16 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Remember ABSCAM? Maybe this is the start of another one of those.


95 posted on 05/22/2006 3:15:05 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Talk about a culture of Corruption... Jeez Dingy Harry Reid and his ugly twin Pelosi...ought to be all over this.. right???


96 posted on 05/22/2006 4:16:46 AM PDT by tomnbeverly (Steer Clear Of Large Metropolitian Areas Because The Liberals Will Reap What They Sow.)
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To: DTogo

He was just sticking it to the man, jury acquital and re-election to follow.


97 posted on 05/22/2006 5:37:37 AM PDT by conservativewasp (Liberals lie for sport and hate our country.)
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To: conservativewasp

What a nice start to Pelosi's week, eh?


98 posted on 05/22/2006 5:50:54 AM PDT by ken5050 (GWB, Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, freed hundreds of millions.# of Nobel PeacePrizes: ZERO)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

he'll just say he was framed and will win re-election in a landslide!


99 posted on 05/22/2006 6:25:36 AM PDT by conservative physics
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To: deport

So, what do you suppose was in those suitcases and the large box Congressman Jefferson recovered from his flooded house? What could possibly be worth taking that kind of risk?


100 posted on 05/22/2006 6:27:04 AM PDT by bondjamesbond (Rice 2008)
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