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  • Documents from Jefferson office raid are in limbo (The 45 day cooling-off period ended Sept. 26th)

    09/27/2006 10:38:46 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 15 replies · 515+ views
    ap on KRON ^ | 9/27/06 | AP
    WASHINGTON The cooling-off period ends today on documents temporarily sealed by President Bush in the bribery case of Congressman William Jefferson. The Louisiana Democrat has been the focus of prosecutors and investigators who suspect him of taking 400-thousand dollars in bribes from a business executive. Bush placed materials seized from Jefferson's Capitol Hill office off limits for 45 days, but that time is up. A court will decide if the F-B-I's searches in May were an unconstitutional intrusion. Until a judge rules, prosecutors won't examine the materials agents seized.
  • CA: Pay cut spared departing Lewis aide from 'cooling off' time

    07/28/2006 9:07:56 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 351+ views
    Riverside Press-Enterprise ^ | 7/28/06 | Claire Vitucci and Duane W. Gang
    The pay of a former staffer of Inland Rep. Jerry Lewis was cut less than a year before she took a job with a Washington lobbying firm, enabling her to avoid a rule prohibiting high-ranking congressional staff members from lobbying their old bosses or committees for one year, House records show. Letitia White worked as an assistant to Lewis, R-Redlands, on the House Appropriations Committee before leaving to take a job as lobbyist in 2003 with the firm then known as Copeland, Lowery, Jacquez, Denton & Shockey. Congressional staff members who earn 75 percent of a House member's salary are...