Posted on 06/04/2007 9:52:18 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa
Edited on 06/04/2007 11:09:19 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON — Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., was indicted Monday on 16 counts related to a long-running bribery investigation on counts including racketeering, obstruction of justice and conspiracy. [snip]
Previously from Drudge.com:
Sources tell CBS NEWS that Congressman William Jefferson (D-LA) will be indicted this afternoon on more than a dozen counts involving public corruption. Jefferson has been the subject of a ongoing probe in which FBI agents allegedly found more than 90-thousand dollars in cash in his freezer. The Justice Department is expected to unveil the charges later today... Developing...
Sandy Berger has more powerful friends.. in the White House..
exactly. This had a big part in the Dems taking over Congress. It allowed them to screech Culture of Corruption unrebutted. Hastert may have been a good manager of the House floor, but he was not a good leader for the party.
On this morning's Fox and Friends, a Dem spokesperson was asked what the party was going to do about Jefferson. He had the nerve to say that Republicans had moved very slowly on Tom Delay. Tom Delay??? who has still never been convicted of anything illegal, probably didn't even do anything illegal and should never have quit IMHO. When Ney and Cunningham were indicted, they were gone immediately.
'Rat spokesman didn't want to hear about them, of course. Since fact-based truth means nothing to 'rats, this is typical. Jefferson's indictment will be old news by noon and smothered by Libbey's sentencing in tomorrows papers.
I think it was one of the very tall oversized military vehicles that was mostly being used to rescue people. He made it wait almost an hour so he could get his computer and other things, which he would not let the military guys carry or touch. mmmmm I wonder why he was so deperate to get his computer?
The very fact that we, who are among the most informed Americans, are not completely certain where the cash was found tells us that there has been no drumbeat in the media about this.
Today's NYT found a little space in the bottom of the right column on page 1 to have a 1 column headline saying "Congressman Sought Bribves, Indictment Says." Does this imply that he didn't actually receive any bribes???
The top right story is about war crimes charges being thrown out for 2 Guantanamo detainees. This is what constitutes victory for the NYT, I guess. Next to that is a story about the blurting out of abscenities on the airwaves. Its subhead is "If Bush Can Curse, So Can Anyone on TV." I hate the NYT. Sentence one starts with a reference to President Bush and Vice President Cheney blurting out vulgar language. I think that Ex42 was a habitual user of vulgar language. GWB and Cheney are each known to have used a single vulgarity that they got on tape and they should be the lead in the story, as if the case was about them. .....no bias in the DBM....
You’ve got me there, I don’t know.
No, he’s earning his DemonRat street cred. When he gets out of the golf course prison in two years, he’ll be on her staff.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing. Randy Cunningham was out the door and into jail faster than you can say Jack Robinson. When a DemonRat is caught in this kind of shenanigans, it gets slow-rolled so bad that it’s hard to remember what they did when the indictment finally comes down.
Don’t worry, Jefferson will get his decade in court.
On the Brink An Insider’s Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence By Tyler Drumheller with Elaine Monaghan Carikk & Graf Publishers, a Philip Turner Book
Philip Turner also edited books for Joe Wilson and Murray Waas.
More on name associations with Drumheller's book deal:
HarperCollins bought the book last year, but canceled it after it announced it would publish George Tenet's At the Center of the Storm. Carroll & Graf editor-in-chief Philip Turner then acquired Drumheller's book and plans to publish it this fall as the first book under his eponymous imprint. The publisher and the PRB have gone back and forth on the book's content and, according to Drumheller's agent, Carmen LaVia of the Oscard Agency...
Other books edited by Turner. Wow...Susan McDougal.
Turner will also be publishing "The United States v. I. Lewis Libby," No surprise there.
Drumheller hangs around with all the usual suspects (#24), including Vincent Cannistraro and Larry Johnson of the VIPS, per this article on him exposing him as a liar.
I still say Wilson is also going to end up behind bars before this is all over.
But, will he get the same treatment as the Hammer did?...unlikely..
The top right story is about war crimes charges being thrown out for 2 Guantanamo detainees.
IIIIIII
Did the story mention that their charges are being thrown out because Congress changed the law last fall from “enemy combatant” to “unlawful enemy combatant”? Apparently every person at Gitmo who was indicted (or accused in preparation for the military tribunal track) will have to go through the process again to be identified as an “unlawful” enemy combatant.
Subsequently, it was taken to his DC office and that is where the Feds. found it (again). I believe they knew the money was in there from surveillance done earlier.
It has been widely reported that on Aug. 3, 2005, FBI agents raided Jefferson's home in Northeast Washington and found $90,000 of the cash in the freezer. Since Katrina hit on or about August 29th, it doesn't compute that it was the same freezer.
There are dozens of articles available on the web about where and when the cash was found, many of which were posted and commented on right here at FR.
Jacqueline Wilson : Gabon, another oil producer, has gone through more than a half a dozen lobbying firms in recent years. Most of them, like Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand [see Ethiopia], and Powell Tate, have been politically very well connected to both major parties. Costs have been well over a million dollars a year, or an average of about 250,000 dollars per agency.
Most recently, however, Gabon appears to have cut off some of its agents, settling instead for relationships with UK-based Shandwick Public Affairs, which last year [2000] bought out Powell Tate and Cassidy & Associates.
Gabon has also maintained a three-year-old relationship with Jacqueline Wilson, the ex-spouse of a senior US diplomat [Joe Wilson]. According to her filings, Wilson receives tens of thousands of dollars for special projects and reports to President Omar Bongo's daughter, Pascaline Mferri Bongo.
In her latest filing, Wilson reported that she was paid 60,000 dollars between August and November 2000 to ''support action of president of Gabon to fight AIDS pandemic (and) develop a strategy.'' As to work performed, she reported sending ''letters to the office of National AIDS policy at the White House.''------- "USA: African Governments Spend Millions on Lobbying,"by Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, CORPWATCH, May 20th, 2001, http://www.corpwatch.org/print_article.php?id=98
Wonder if there is any Jacqueline Wilson connection to Daddy "ChillBucks" Jefferson and his - or was it his wife's foundation, an AIDS-and-Africa-related charity?
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They can demand anything they want. Many, but not all, sitting members of Congress resign when they're indicted. The stubborn ones who stick it out until after they're convicted are usually expelled. Congress usually doesn't expel members from either party until there's a conviction.
DeLay was required to resign from the leadership, not from his seat in the House. He chose to resign his seat to clear the way for another Republican in the 2006 election -- but he waited until after the primary to do so.
2001 : (A PAN AFRICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROJECT IS LAUNCHED BY PACONET WITH FINANCING BY FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA & AIG [See EL PASO ENERGY CORP]) [Mohammed] Alamoudi investments in African telecommunications included a Pan-African telecommunications project launched in 2001 by Pan African Communications Network (PACONET) with financing from a fund chaired by former South African President Nelson Mandela and cofinanced by the International Finance Corporation (IFG), the American International Group (AIG, a group including the Houston-based company El Paso Energy Corporation), and the African Development Bank (ADB). -------From Fedora's article on FR| 11/05/2005 11:44:05 PM PST
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