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William Jennings “Dollar Bill” JEFFERSON, federal representative for Louisiana’s 2nd congressional district, was born in Lake Providence, Louisiana, on 14 March 1947. 2006jul25.

Stock and money were criminally, indirectly paid to Louisiana’s federal representative William Jennings “Bill” Jefferson by paying a company owned by Jefferson’s children and controlled by his wife (Andrea Green Jefferson is the corporation’s manager). The corporation, The ANJ Group L.L.C. (Louisiana charter/organization ID 35029844K), has registered agent Jack Swetland. Swetland is an accountant who has worked for William Jefferson and some of his closest political allies (including some of his relatives). Jefferson also, indirectly got illicit payments through a similar, Ghanian company. Some of the bribery may have related to business opportunities for broadband communications.

Brett M. Pfeffer, a former aide of Jefferson, was president of a McLean, Virginia, investment company. He and Jefferson agreed that Jefferson would help Nigerian company W2-IBBS (W2-International Broadband Services Ltd.) in exchange for bribes paid to Jefferson’s daughters. One of Jefferson’s daughters, a lawyer, may have helped create W2-IBBS (according to FBI special agent Timothy R. Thibault’s 18 May 2006 affidavit in support of issuance of a search warrant for William Jefferson’s Rayburn House Office Building room 2113; page 7, footnote 6, in District of Columbia federal court case 06-231 M-01.). Supposedly, the bribes were that Jefferson’s daughter-lawyer would be on the payroll of Pfeffer’s investment company (paid a monthly retainer of about $2500 to $5000), Jefferson’s daughters would be given several percent of W2-IBBS, legal work would go to a member of Jefferson’s family (a member other than the above-mentioned daughter-lawyer), and political contributions would be paid to William Jefferson’s daughter (Louisiana state legislator Jalila Jefferson-Bullock). By the way, we think that the several percent would be held through the daughters’ African company, GEES (Global Energy and Environmental Services LLC), which would be run by Jefferson’s son-in-law.

William has five daughters: Jamila, Jalila, Jelani, Nailah, and Akilah. Jamila is an Egyptian girl’s name from Arabic meaning beauty. Jalila is an Arabic girl’s name meaning great. Jelani is a girl’s name (or it is an African boy’s name meaning mighty). Nailah is an Egyptian girl’s name meaning successful. Akilah is an Arabic girl’s name meaning bright, intelligent. We guess that the Cub Scout Akila (”The Cub Scout follows Akila ....”) may possibly come from Akila, leader of the wolf pack, in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. We guess that a former, American Cub Scout would not name his daughter Akilah. We guess that William Jefferson was not in the Cub Scouts.

Three of the five daughtters seem to be lawyers: Jamila (lawyer with Jones Walker law firm, also supposedly a human resources manager at Harrah’s New Orleans casino), Jalila (state legislator), and Jelani (judge’s clerk in federal trial court in New Orleans).

Here is a little information about each of the daughters.

1. Jamila

Jamila E. Jefferson: Harvard Law School 1997, born about 1974, William Jefferson’s oldest daughter, a New Orleans lawyer who worked for Jones Walker law firm. She does not seem to have been a lawyer in Nigeria or Virginia (where Pfeffer’s investment company has its headquarters). She has been on Louisiana’s Orleans Parish Democratic Executive Committee. Supposedly, she now may be a human resources manager at Harrah’s New Orleans casino. We don’t know her expertise in human resources management or the casino industry. She is interested in inernational mergers and acquisitions.

Supposedly, she, Vernon L. Jackson (a Kentuckian who bribed her father in conjunction with a Nigerian busines opportunity, and who contributed to her state legislator sister’s campaign), and Herbert O. Orji (CEO of Summa Guaranty and Trust Company, in Nigeria) have been listed as board members and investors in GCC (Gridline Communications Corporation). On 24 July 2006, she and Orji were (according to former URL www.easyir.com/easyir/bofd.do?easyirid=7CC11D157762D610) still on the GCC board. GCC, which has headquarters in Sugarland (Texas), wants to provide BPL (broadband over power line) technology to power companies. GCC offers to help power companies earn extra money by providing broadband communications to power customers.

According to the Times-Picayune website, “According to a December 2004 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jamila Jefferson had 492,244 shares of stock in Gridline, while Jackson had 10.3 million shares.” How much did Jamila and her father William pay for those shares?

JAMILA E JEFFERSON, 201 SAINT CHARLES AVE (not to be confused with Saint Charles Place, which is in Monopoly), 03/01/2006, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70170-1000. (504) 582-8450. Near Gravier and Canal Streets. This is not a residential address. We guess that she does not live here.
1 SQ 224 LOT P ST CHARLES AND, 2 GRAVIER 235X255 OVER 220.
This property is owned by Owner Name LKBOC LLC, Address 521 FIFTH AVE., STE 2300, City / State / Zip NEW YORK NY 10175.

JAMILA E JEFFERSON, 2424 CONSTANCE ST, 03/01/2005, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130. (504) 896-8946, (504) 899-2685.
This is owned by her sister, Jelani F. Jefferson.

2. Jalila

Jalila Esle Jefferson-Bullock: Harvard Law School 2001, member of Louisiana’s state House of Represetatives representing New Orleans district 91, has been an attorney at New Orleans’s Murray Law Firm. On 24 July 2006, we guess that she is not a lawyer in Nigeria or Virginia (where Pfeffer’s investment company is headquartered). Read about her uncle (her mother’s brother), judge Alan Green, below.

JALILA JEFFERS ON, 717 PENISTON ST, 10/17/2004, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115. (504) 895-1928. This property is owned by William L. Walters.

JALILA E JEFFERSON, 3313 SARATOGA ST, 03/11/2004, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115. (504) 896-8354.
1 SQ 511 LOT S SARATOGA 86X105, 2 3313 S SARATOGA ST, 3 2-STY CON BLOCK-8 APTS, 4 FILE #89904 11/05.
This property is owned by Owner Name B E P CONSULTINGSERVICES LLC, Address % 3313 S SARATOGA ST APT 3, City / State / Zip NEW ORLEANS LA 70115. This may be an 8-apartment building. The owner’s telephone number may be (504) 899-1254.

That address (3313 Saratoga) is also an address for a business of which Jalila’s aunt, Brenda Jefferson (Brenda Foster) is agent: Louisiana company: 35875980K 02/11/2005; BACA SERVICES, LLC 3313 S. SARATOGA ST. NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115; Agent: BRENDA JEFFERSON 3313 S. SARATOGA ST. NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115.

JALILA E JEFFERSON Born Jun 1975, 1922 MARENGO ST, 01/25/2002, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115. (504) 895-1339, (504) 899-3106. This is her parent’s home. It is uptown.

3. Jelani F.

Jelani F. Jefferson: Harvard Law School 2004, clerk for New Orleans’s U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon. Search warrants related to William Jefferson were issued by the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, not by the federal trial court in New Orleans. Usually, warrants are issued by a trial court, not an appellate court. Maybe the FBI avoided the federal trial court in New Orleans because Jelani (William Jefferson’s daughter) works there. She seems to have married Kevin Sheppard on about 2 August 2004.

JELANI JEFFERSON, 2424 CONSTANCE ST, 01/01/2006, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130. Orleans parish. (504) 891-9596, (504) 896-8946. She may own this. This property is a homestead. The owner claims to live here.

1 SQ 111 LOT 3 CONSTANCE ST, 2 32X99 = 3168 SQ FT, 3 FILE #11551.

JELANI JEFFERSON, Born Sep 1979, 1922 MARENGO ST, 01/14/2001, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115. (504) 899-3106, (504) 895-1339.

4. Nailah

Nailah was the 2005 queen of the 57th Washington [District of Columbia] Mardi Gras Celebration. Someone with that name may be a student at Boston University (near where Nailah’s father and sisters went to school).

NAILAH A JEFFERSON Born Dec 1981, 2424 CONSTANCE ST, 08/14/2002, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130, (504) 896-8946. This is owned by her sister, Jelani F. Jefferson.

5. Akilah

Akilah seems to be a Brown University alumna who attended an activity of the Brown Club of New Orleans. People with her name may be involved with Our Bodies Ourselves and may work at Gallagher Lab, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.

AKILAH JEFFERSON, 416 BROOK ST, 09/01/2005, PROVIDENCE, RI 02906, (401) 270-5391.

AKILAH L JEFFERSON, STATE COLLEGE, PA 16803, (814) 861-nnnn

William Jefferson has other relatives, some involved in politics.

1. New Orleans judge Alan Green, who is William Jefferson’s brother-in-law (Alan’s sister Andrea is William’s wife), supposedly was video taped getting an eight hundred dollar, cash contribution for his niece (state legislator Jalila Jefferson, who is William Jefferson’s daughter). The eight hundred dollars supposedly never got from judge Green to Jalila Jefferson’s campaign. The cash payment was made in the judge’s office by a lawyer wih a court case before the judge. Later, the judge decided the case for that lawyer’s client, awarding that client even more money (1.82 million dollars) than his lawyer had requested (1.73 million dollars).
2. William’s parents are Mose Jefferson and Angeline Harris Jefferson, both dead. Do not confuse William’s brother and dead father, both named Mose.
3. Willaim’s sister, Alice Jefferson Montgomery, was an administrator.
4. William’s brother, Archie L. Jefferson, became a lawyer in 1987 and was disbarred in 2004.
5. William’s sister, Barbara Jefferson Jackson, teaches in Louisiana.
6. William’s brother, Bennie Lee Jefferson, is married to civil district court Judge Carolyn Gill Jefferson. They have three children: Steven, Bennie II (why not “Bennie Jr.”?), and Angeline (perhaps named after her paternal grandmother).

She will resign, or has resigned, from her judgeship to spend more time with her children (which sounds dubious to us). It has been speculated that her resignation is related to her supposedly having signed off on a local scandal involving a Dodge Durango SUV (described in the below discussion of Mose Jefferson). The scandal involves former city councilwoman Renee Gill Pratt. We don’t know if judge Carolyn Gill Jefferson is related to former councilwoman Renee Gill Pratt. For campaign finance disclosures, the two politicians use the same accountant, CPA Jack Swetland, who is also William Jefferson’s accountant.

Owner Name JEFFERSON BENNIE LEE ET AL, 3035 OCTAVIA ST, City / State / Zip NEW ORLEANS LA 70125. Homestead: the owner of that address claims to live there.

1 SQ 714 LOT J OCTAVIA, 2 70/VARX120/VAR HILO-B, 3 S-B-W/OFFICE, 4 FILE #80280 1/98 SALF.

7. William’s sister, Betty Jefferson, is New Orleans 4th district assessor. Betty Jefferson, has been president of the Orleans Parish School Board.

JEFFERSON BETTY, 936 JACKSON AVENUE, NEW ORLEANS LA 70115. This is a homestead. She claims to live here.
1 SQ 109 LOT 9 JACKSON AVE, 2 32X120 = 3840 SQ FT, 3 FILE #15619.

1725 VALMONT ST. This is not a homestead. The owner does not claim to live here.
1 SQ 485 LOT W VALMONT
2 VAR X VAR
3 1725 VALMONT CONDO
4 FILE #85873 7/03 TRANSFER
Owner Name JEFFERSON BETTY, Address P O BOX 57762, City / State / Zip NEW ORLEANS LA 70157.

Next door to Betty’s house on Jackson Avenue, there was an illegally demolished house owned by a corporation run by her brother, Archie L. Jefferson. He was fined twenty-five thousand dollars for the demolition.
8. William’s sister Brenda Jefferson (also known as Brenda Foster) is contact person for JEFF-CO CONTRACTORS INC, a New Orleans construction company specializing in highway, street, and bridge construction (a specialty in which government agencies often are customers). This is an SBA-certified company with SBA case number 107124.

There is a Louisiana company: 35875980K 02/11/2005; BACA SERVICES, LLC 3313 S. SARATOGA ST. NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115; Agent: BRENDA JEFFERSON 3313 S. SARATOGA ST. NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115; Member/Manager AYANA JEFFERSON, 3313 S. SARATOGA ST. NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115; Member/Manager CHRISTINA FOSTER, 3313 S. SARATOGA ST. NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115; Member/Manager ANBREANNA FOSTER, 3313 S. SARATOGA ST. NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115.
We guess that the three members (Christina, Ayana, and Anbreanna) are Brenda’s children or other relatives. Christina is a niece of William Jefferson. Someone in Louisiana named “Ayana Jefferson” lost a dog: “Germ Shep-’Lucky’- 11 mos. br/bl saddle back Call Ayana Jefferson @ 985-351-210 [sic]” (according to information which was at URL http://www.sttammanyhumanesociety.org/1050531.html).

That address (3313 S. Saratoga) is listed for Brenda’s niece: JALILA E JEFFERSON, 3313 SARATOGA ST, 03/11/2004, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115. (504) 896-8354

9. William’s sister, Delois Jefferson Tucker, teaches in Chicago, Illinois, public schools. By the way, in America, there once was an American brand of car called Tucker.
10. William’s brother Mose “Mos Jef” Jefferson has helped relatives (for example, his state legislator sister) campaign for office. Do not confuse him with his dead father, also named Mose. Mose Jefferson runs Orleans Metropolitan Housing and Community Development Inc. (a nonprofit organization which gets much help from government) and owns a company which is a landlord.

By the way, Mose Jefferson is involved in an SUV scandal in New Orleans. There are somewhat different versions of the scandal. We’ll tell you one version, no tnecessarily the most accurate. After Katrina, an auto dealer gave away some SUVs. The recipients were chosen after listening to the advice of William Jefferson and another, federal representative. The SUVs were supposed to be used for emerencies (police, fire, etc.) and other, serious, government business, not as fringe benefits for big shots. City councilwoman Renee Gill Pratt wrongly took one for rher own use. Just before the April 2006 primary election, she realized that she would lose the primary and therefore soon be out of a job. She gave (or arrnaged for the city to give) the city-owned car to a nonprofit organization (Care Unlimited) run by her boyfriend Mose Jefferson. After she stopped being a councilwoman, Care Unlimited hired her and told her she could drive the car she had earlier donated (or arranged for the city to donate). Thus, she had changed employers but was still driving the same, employer-owned car. When people asked her how this had happened, she said, “Sometimes God puts things in places for you.”. Many people complained. Eventually, she arranged for Care Unlimitd to give the car back to New Orleans city. She and Mose both are part of William Jefferson’s political faction. We don’t necessarily understand this scandal perfectly.

Owner Name PRATT RENEE’ G, Address 1718 TOLEDANO ST, City / State / Zip NEW ORLEANS LA 70115. Homestead: owner Pratt claims to live here.

Pratt Renee G, 3311 ANNUNCIATION ST. Owner Pratt does not claim to live here. The owner’s correspondence address is on Toledano.

MOSE O JEFFERSON Born Aug 1942, 11640 HAYNE BLVD, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70128, (504) 242-5792

MOSE JEFFERSON, 2716 LOYOLA AVE, 10/15/2003 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70113, (504) 891-5904

MOSE JEFFERSON, 3443 ESPLANADE AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119.

We may not have perfectly described how some of Jefferson’s relatives were involved in his bribery and other activities. William Jefferson illustrates the need to legally find out about government officers’ relatives and former employees.

WILLIAM J JEFFERSON Born Mar 1947, 1922 MARENGO ST, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115. (504) 895-1339, (504) 899-3106. He may own this.

1 SQ 474 LOTS 18 19 REAR LOT23, 2 24 MARENGO 60/30 X 120/180, 3 S-2 STY-W/APT POOL 93 PERMIT, 4 1922-22HF MARENGO, 5 FILE #49449.

WILLIAM J JEFFERSON, 700 7TH ST SW (near G Street), 12/28/2000, WASHINGTON, DC 20024. This is roughly a mile’s drive from the Capitol.

Address: 0700 7TH ST SW Unit: 216, Washington DC
SSL: 0468 2063
Record Details
Neighborhood: R.L.A. SW Sub-Neighborhood:
Use Code: 17 -
Residential-Condo-Vertical
Class 3 Exception: No
Tax Type: TX - Taxable
Tax Class: 001 -
Residential
Homestead Status: ** Not receiving the Homestead Deduction. The owner does not claim that this is his permanent, main home.
Assessor: SHAWNDRA WILLIS
Gross Building Area:
Ward: 6
Land Area: 332
Triennial Group: 2
Owner and Sales Information Owner Name: WILLIAM J JEFFERSON
Mailing Address: PO BOX 844; TEMPLE HILLS MD20757-0844. This is the same address as for Travel Consultants Intl Incorporated; (301) 630-4970; Po Box 844, Temple Hills, MD. That corporation may be TRAVEL CONSULTANTS INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED; OXON HILL, MD 20745; Phone: (301) 630-4970.