Posted on 06/07/2009 10:13:12 AM PDT by Libloather
Money Stashed in Freezer Is Key in Jefferson Trial
By Allison Klein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 7, 2009
The bribery and fraud case of former U.S. representative William J. Jefferson involves business ventures in seven West African nations, 16 criminal counts and a high-stakes legal battle over the raid of his Washington office. But when the trial begins Tuesday in Alexandria federal court, the case will be summed up to jurors with this key question: "Do you know the case of the congressman with the money in the freezer?"
After nine terms in office, the Louisiana Democrat is most known for the $90,000 that federal officers found wrapped in aluminum foil and tucked inside frozen food containers in his Capitol Hill home.
Jurors are expected to determine whether the congressman was using his freezer as an alternative to a bank, akin to stuffing lawful money under his mattress, or whether he was the mastermind behind a botched scheme to bribe the vice president of Nigeria.
Jefferson, 62, has told reporters that he has an "honest explanation" for the cold cash, but he has yet to offer details. The investigation has led to two of Jefferson's business associates, including a former aide, pleading guilty to bribery.
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Greed would explain it.
Cold Stash of Cash soon to BURN Jefferson
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1244352680178040.xml&coll=1
Jefferson case reaches courtroom
Corruption trial full of firsts, fireworks set to unfold Tuesday
Movin on up ...with Jefferson.
OB will spring him if he goes to the tank.
And he would have probably gotten away with it if the California Raisins hadn’t dropped a dime on his rear.
“Hello FBI, you can tell them you heard it through the Grapevine.”
And when NO flooded he commandeered military vehicles trying to rescue said freezer! The wheeled vehicle got stuck, the helicopter refused to haul a freezer while people were still needing rescue!
I thought that was what I remembered!
They’re just getting to this now?
Seems there’s a lot of evidence against him. He should be very concerned barring another OJ jury.
I think he is going to be found innocent and spend the rest of his life looking for the person who put that money in the frig.
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Yeah, I bet there are. They've had plenty of time to make the 'fix'.
Rotten RATs run free.
I think he will, too.
If the government was interested in this case then Jefferson would have been put under the jail years ago.
Yep. Leading Republicans in both the House and the Senate were falling all over themselves to help to try to make the case go away, and that was when they were in the majority. I had never been so disgusted with the Republican party in my life.
Excuse me, “leading Republicans in both the House and the Senate” is, in fact, THE leading Republicans in both the House (Hastert) and the Senate (Frist). They couldn’t get to the mikes quickly enough to denounce the FBI search of Jefferson’s office:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639714/posts
Holders prosecutors will be sure to put on a halfa@@@ed case to ensure a walk
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