I am starting to think that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the "Nigerian" email scams originated in Congress! Ta-Daaa
Ping
Check THIS out. Scroll down.
From "picking cotton" for three bucks a day to Harvard Law School. Sounds to me like people have been discriminating against him all his life.
How far into the NYSlimes article do I have to read before I get to the part where Congressman Jefferson was caught on tape accepting a $100,000 bribe?
Most Falling-Down-Funny Excerpt: "Yet even if Jefferson is guilty, and even if the actions of the FBI come to be deemed acceptable - why not, since we appear to be collectively bent on trashing most of our constitutional protections these days - the question asked above still stands. If Jefferson took bribes, he did so to help a Virginia business install phone and Internet lines in Africa. This is a far, far cry from the kind of frontal attacks upon our intelligence branches that corrupt Republicans like Cunningham and his friends have profited from."
Incidentally: I take it no one's ever bothered informing The Great Lefty Scrivener that only illiterate louts end their sentences with prepositions. :)
If the NYT is keeping him in the news in this light he is screwed. The next twist will be Justice giving him the option to fall on his sword or risk his wife and some of his children do time. I'm loving every minute of this!!! CAJUNFREUDE!!!!
I just hope with all that cash he had in the freezer he didn't toss it at a couple of pinhead managers at The National Guard to get him trucked there in the first place, and they took it...
Oh, he's a slum lord.
Related article -- the guy had so many corruption schemes, it's hard to keep track.
Jefferson Probe Includes Other Suspected Schemes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639798/posts
Hey Willy Jefferson... it will be fun watching you do the perp walk in nickle-plated cuffs.
What I find intriguing are the similarities between the two William Jeffersons....
The company associated with Jefferson's wife is The ANJ Group LLC. Records on file with the Louisiana secretary of state's office list the group's manager as Andrea G. Jefferson, 1922 Marengo St. Records connected to The ANJ Group were among items sought by federal agents, according to the source who saw the search warrants. The exact nature of The ANJ Group's business was unclear Friday.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity and who declined to provide a copy of the warrants, said there was "a decidedly foreign flavor" to the list of materials sought by federal agents in their raids last week on Jefferson's homes in New Orleans and Washington, his car in the capital, and the office of his longtime accountant and campaign treasurer in New Orleans.
Nigeria and another African country unspecified by the source are mentioned in the search warrants. The warrants further specify that the agents sought correspondence and e-mail between Jefferson and named foreign nationals, the source said. The source declined to comment on what the agents might have seized in the raids.
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The photo of the Jefferson family graves is the perfect touch, along with the photo of "Dollar Bill" as a wee boy.
Nobody does it better.
Congress is back to 1993.
This 'Rat is a slumlord, just like Algore was!
I wonder how many of those appliances were free gifts for opening up new bank accounts.
Morial's uncle pleads guilty to RTA theft.
"We will not rest until corruption is eradicated and every public servant is dedicated to public service and not private service," Letten said.