Congressman William Jefferson (D-LA) INDICTED

FoxNews ^ | 6/4/2007

[ReignOfError]

When Ney and Cunningham were indicted, they were gone immediately.

Bob Ney left Congress two months after he entered guilty pleas. Duke Cunningham resigned effective immediately after pleading guilty. They both quit after a conviction, not an indictment. Because I can't find any reference to either of them being indicted, it seems likely that both waived the indictment and struck plea bargains.

[ReignOfError]

MP>Ethics groups asks Pelosi to make Jefferson resign from congress
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0605-05.htm

The headline on that page is "Ethics Group Asks Pelosi to Seek Rep. William Jefferson's Resignation From Congress." Seek is not the same thing as make.

Pelosi has no power to force Jefferson to resign, though she can strip him of his seniority and all his committee assignments and basically make him feel about as welcome as a pork rind at a bar mitzvah.

The House can, by a simple majority vote, expel any member, but that traditionally isn't done without a conviction. Most convicted members of Congress resign immediately after being convicted, if not before; the only recent exception I can remember is Jim Traficant, who was expelled and is currently in federal prison.

[rfreedom4u]

What is the opinion of the Congressional White Caucas?

Oh wait. That would be racist.

[ravingnutter]

It was William Jefferson's:

VICE-PRESIDENT Atiku Abubakar's wife, Jennifer, has been indicted in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe of US Congressman, William Jefferson, over bribery involving a transnational tele-communications deal. Jennifer resides in the Potomac, Maryland home of Atiku which was raided on August 3, 2005, by the FBI in connection with the bribery investigation.

In a report on Tuesday, the FBI revealed that a taped conversation between Jefferson and a wired Mody saw the embattled American lawmaker describing Jennifer as a "front". Jefferson told Mody that the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Gede Foundation, being operated in Washington by Jennifer, was a front, being used to channel illegal funds by the Atiku family.

Gede Foundation, according to the founder, was to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The affidavit recently unsealed by the FBI on the investigation also quoted Jefferson as describing Atiku Abubakar as "a businessman who has more deals than the man in the moon and he's a very well, the word might be... corrupt".

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[Disambiguator]

"Do you have a Japanese banana?"

[ravingnutter]

Hmmmm...just found a list of names of all those involved:

1 Atiku Abubakar

2 Otumba Fashawe

3 Vernon Jackson

4 Maureen Scurry a.k.a Maureen Edu

5 NDTV

6 Rosecom.Net

7 Life Energy Technology Holdings (LETH)

8 TDC Oversees

9 Arkel Sugar

10 Arkel International

11 IGate

12 ANJ Group

13 W2-IBBS, Limited

14 Diverse Communication

15 Global Energy& Environmental Services

16 Jefferson Interest Inc

17 IBILE Holdings Limited

18 International Broadband Services, Limited

19 William Jefferson

20 Andrea Jefferson

21 Jamila Jefferson

22 Jalilah E. Jefferson

23 Nailah A. Jefferson

24 Jelani F. Jefferson

25 Akilah A. Jefferson

26 Tory Bullock

27 Philips Jones, Jr

28 Mose Jefferson

29 Bennie Jefferson

30 Archie Jefferson

31 Coy related to the above

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[ChadGore]

"Do you have a Japanese banana?"
IN MY PANTS!

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

"What happened was I got an email from Nigerian General Kachinga Cheatchusuckah who had a problem."

So all of those e-mails that I get from "Barrister Zimbabuntubu" (and similar) about wanting to give me $10,000,000 becasue my long lost great, great, great, three times removed, uncle, passed away and left me with the money are TRUE!!!

[dbacks]

[Since Katrina hit on or about August 29th, it doesn’t compute that it was the same freezer.]

Ok, I stand corrected.

Then the question is, what was so important about the freezer in his NO home that warranted his involving NG and others??

[gondramB]

>>ROFL You mean Blanco? Your sarcasm is beautiful.<<

Well, she did such a magnificent job with Katrina, I’m sure she’ll appoint someone worthy of continuing the the William Jefferson legacy. In fact, I’d bet on it.

[Cinnamon]

Is Queen Pelosi demanding his resignation? We’ve all been told this is the most ethical congress in history *stops drinking the coolaid*

[ravingnutter]

More on Jennifer Abubakar and the $2M House in MD. Seems she has some aliases as well. Her political donations

DOUGLAS-ABUBAKA, JENNIFER
POTOMAC, MD 20854
HOMEMAKER

DNC-NON-FEDERAL INDIVIDUAL 06/30/2000 5000.00 20035761701

Total Soft Money: 5000.00

Contributions to Political Committees

DOUGLAS, JENNIFER
POTOMAC, MD 20854
USAID

CLELAND, JOSEPH MAXWELL VIA FRIENDS OF MAX CLELAND FOR THE US SENATE INC 02/20/2002 250.00 22020290638

DOUGLAS, JENNIFER J
SILVER SPRING, MD 20910
USAID
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE 09/08/2000 500.00 20036150899

DOUGLAS, JENNIFER J.
SILVER SPRING, MD 20910
USAID/SPECIAL ASSISTANT

GORE, AL VIA GORE 2000 INC 03/11/1999 250.00 20990084055

DOUGLAS, JENNIFER MS.
POTOMAC, MD 20854
GEDE FOUNDATION/PRESIDENT

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE 11/21/2003 25000.00 23992532958

DOUGLAS-ABUBAKA, JENNIFER
POTOMAC, MD 20854
HOMEMAKER

DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE 06/30/2000 20000.00 20035760210

DOUGLAS-ABUBAKAR, JENNIFER
POTOMAC, MD 20854
HOMEMAKER

MIKULSKI, BARBARA VIA MIKULSKI FOR SENATE COMMITTEE 09/30/2003 1000.00 23020372022

DOUGLAS-ABUBAKAR, JENNIFER E

POTOMAC, MD 20854

SEDE FOUNDATION/PRESIDENT

VAN HOLLEN, CHRIS VIA VAN HOLLEN FOR CONGRESS 01/26/2004 500.00 24990525459

Total Contributions: 47500.00

Joint Fundraising Contributions

These are contributions to committees who are raising funds to be distributed to other committees. The breakdown of these contributions to their final recipients may appear below

DOUGLAS, JENNIFER J MS.
HYATTSVILLE, MD 20783
SELF EMPLOYED/CONSULTANT

KERRY VICTORY 2004 07/09/2004 250.00 24962130552

Total Joint Fundraising: 250.00

Recipient of Joint Fundraiser Contributions

These are the Final Recipients of Joint Fundraising Contributions

DOUGLAS, JENNIFER J MS.
HYATTSVILLE, MD 20783
SELF EMPLOYED
KERRY, JOHN F VIA JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC 07/09/2004 250.00 24962262013

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Weird that she also gave such a large sum to the RNC, considering her other donations.

[Theodore R.]

No appointments are possible for the U.S. House — it’s in the Constitution. Special elections are required, and the Jefferson district is 90 percent Democrat. People there really admire Jefferson as a “poor boy” done well.

[gondramB]

>>No appointments are possible for the U.S. House — it’s in the Constitution. Special elections are required, and the Jefferson district is 90 percent Democrat. People there really admire Jefferson as a “poor boy” done well.<<

I think you are forgetting Article 1 section 2 clause 4 but I was mainly trying to make fun of the governor... sorry about that.

>>Clause 4: When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.<<

[libscum]

The media will bury this then drop it because he is a black Dem.(protected species). Jefferson will get a free pass by the lib judge and lib jury in LA but Lewis Libby will rot in jail. The Nazi Media is getting a bit out of control. The last election empowered them, doesn’t anybody get it. We need another Reagan type to get beyond the Nazi media and address the people directly. Bush has failed to do this.