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Affidavit: $90,000 found in democrat, congressman's freezer, also caught on tape taking bribe!
CNN ^
| May22, 2006
| Kevin Bohn and Terry Frieden
Posted on 05/22/2006 5:31:12 AM PDT by OPS4
Affidavit: $90,000 found in congressman's freezer FBI wraps up search of Jefferson's office in bribery probe WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal agents searched the Capitol Hill office of a Louisiana congressman under investigation on bribery charges Sunday, while newly released court papers said agents found $90,000 in cash last year in his Washington home. the cash sum in a freezer. The money was divided among various frozen food containers, according to the heavily redacted affidavit. Agents told a judge the money was part of a $100,000 payment that had been delivered by an informant in the bribery probe, which already has led to guilty pleas by a Kentucky businessman and a former Jefferson aide.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: black; corruption; democrats; dupe; ijustwokeup; lookinbreakingnews; politicalcorruption; search
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How much press will this thief get? OPS4 God Bless America!
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:31:13 AM PDT
by
OPS4
To: OPS4
Culture of Corruption.........Where did $10k go?.........
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:32:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
To: OPS4
To: Red Badger
Speak up Nancy you bubble-eyed buffoon.
To: PBRSTREETGANG
Had to make sure somebody had said that.....
Thanks for not disappointing.
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:36:06 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Only strict constructionists on the Supreme Court!)
To: Red Badger
kickbacks somewhere... follow the money
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:36:49 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll. 17,400+ snide replies and counting!)
To: OPS4
Had this been a conservative, his name would have been in the headline
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:39:17 AM PDT
by
TXFireman
To: OPS4
He's already pulling his race card. How long before the likes of Reverend Jackson, Al Sharpton and the ACLU get involved. ...3, 2, 1.
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:41:25 AM PDT
by
poobear
(The most critical job that Americans will not do (just illegals): Vote for Democrats!)
To: OPS4
Where's Pelosi calling for the removal of this cancer in the culture of corruption ? ,...oh wait....never-mind
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:41:26 AM PDT
by
stylin19a
(There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't)
To: OPS4
To: theDentist
It was already illegal money, who's he gonna kick it back to? The FBI?......
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:41:44 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
To: OPS4
I wonder if this crook will get the same time or more than Jim (Beam Me Up) Traficant.
But then, we musn't brandish the race card, must we?.
Leni
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:42:29 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(FReeps Ahoy 4 cruisers are home! Check the cruise thread for photos. Hit red "4" on Home Page)
To: OPS4
Frozen assets, cold cash.
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:43:01 AM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: sgtbono2002
"The B!7c# Set Me Up!".........
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:44:17 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
To: OPS4
Whatever made him think no one would look there? What an amateur!
To: sgtbono2002
This kinda bursts (busts?) the bubble of their "Culture of Corruption" campaign theme for November.......
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:46:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
To: OPS4
With all the evidence against him, William Jefferson, D-LA has the gall to state that he will not resign his seat. I guess resignations are only for Republicans.
To: Graymatter
Yeah, everybody knows to hide cash in the lettuce drawer.......
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:48:00 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
To: alice_in_bubbaland
Remember the Donk congress critter from Chicago that was having sex with the teenaged campaign volunteer? MEL something or other.........He had to be ejected.......
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posted on
05/22/2006 5:49:40 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
To: Red Badger
...and diamonds go in the freezer. Precisely! ;)
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