Rep. William Jefferson Setting the Standards for the New Congress
 

Jury Indicts Jefferson in Bribery Probe

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., was indicted Monday on federal charges of racketeering, soliciting bribes and money-laundering in a long- running bribery investigation into business deals he tried to broker in Africa.
The indictment handed up in federal court in Alexandria., Va., Monday is 94 pages long and lists 16 alleged violations of federal law that could keep Jefferson in prison for up to 235 years. He is charged with racketeering, soliciting bribes, wire fraud, money-laundering, obstruction of justice, conspiracy and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Jefferson is accused of soliciting bribes for himself and his family, and also for bribing a Nigerian official.

Almost two years ago, in August 2005, investigators raided Jefferson's home in Louisiana and found $90,000 in cash stuffed into a box in his freezer.

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

You all think this email I get once a week is related to the above case??

Dear Friend,

I am a director in the foreign affairs department of the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I got your email during a
personal research on the Internet and wish to use this opportunity to
notify you of the existence of a certain amount we wish to transfer
overseas for the purpose of investments and importation of goods from
your country.

In May 2001, a contract of sixty-six million United States dollars
($66,000,000) was awarded to a foreign company by my ministry. The
contract was supply, erection and system optimization of supper polyore
200,000-bpsd, system optimization of 280,000-monax axial plants and the
computerization of conveyor belt for Kaduna refinery. With only the
consent of the head of the contract evaluation department, I over
invoiced the contract value by thirty four million United States dollars
($34,000,000).

The contract has been completed long ago and the foreign company fully
paid off. But in the office files and paper work, the company is still
owed USD34M representing the over invoiced amount. Because this amount
is derived from the award and execution of a foreign contract, there is
no way the money can be paid locally. That is why I contacted you so
that we can do the project together for our mutual benefit. We have
concluded every necessary arrangement to transfer this amount to a
foreign account as the final phase payment for the said contract. What
we need is your bank account into which we can deposit the money and
after we shall come over there to share the money with you.

We sincerely need an honest person to work with and have agreed to share
the money in the following percentages, 70% will be for us who will
effect the transfer and 30% will be for you whose account is used to
secure the funds. There is no risk involvement because applications
will be made to the concerned Federal ministries and parastatal with
official approvals given by the Federal government before the Central
bank of Nigeria will be officially empowered to wire the funds to your
account by telegraphic transfer.

If you are interested, contact me by Email through osmund@2by2.net
indicating your full names or company name and address. Your direct
telephone and fax numbers. The name and address of the bank you will
like us to deposit the money, the telephone and fax numbers of the bank,
your account number etc. Everything has been arranged and I will send
more information about the business transaction to you as soon as I hear
from you. For obvious reasons, please keep the proposal top secret and
highly confidential.

Kind regards,
William Jefferson

:D

Even after all the publicity, Americans lose a remarkable amount of money to those Nigerian scams every year. Jefferson was just trying to bring some of that money home.

TheMercenary does not post about THE benchmark for a corrupt politician - Duke Cunningham. He is a Republican who preached must of TheMercenary's political agenda. Therefore TheMercenary forgets to mention the most ever corrupt member of Congress. Also remember the bias intentionally embedded in every TheMercenary post. Remember TheMercenary also believes the George Jr administration is a group of moral men - because those 'moral men' advocate his political agenda in complete denial of reality.

So where was TheMercenary's post about Trent Lott or Tom Delay? Oh. They too were Republicans who preached TheMercenary's political agenda.

Pssssstttttt...... tw, it ain't about me. :lol: :D :D :D :D

Home to his homies maybe. :D

I always smile when this part comes up. It's like he was watching Miami Vice reruns.

Someone please tell me what wife in their right mind would just ignore cold hard cash sitting next to the frozen meat and pretend like nothing was going on?

Was it wrapped in aluminum foil, right next to some other unidentified object wrapped in foil? Don't know about your freezer, but I don't ever open any mystery foil bricks I find next to the Breyer's.

I'd take the money, buy me a bunch of stuff, and tell him "What, you gonna report me?" But I'm evil.

However, I'm a bit concerned about what glatt suspects is in the foil in his freezer!:eek:

Maybe his wife is one of those girls who can't cook. Who knows? I do know that it all sounds pretty hokey and based on the news reports he is going to have a pretty hard time explaining how that money got there.

Im black and i think that Jefferson man is a freking embaressment to black people everywhere and i hope somone shoots his dumb ass

I don't know about shooting him but I do hope they lock him up like the rest of the crooks who have been caught in Congress taking kickbacks and the like.

Well he's a blackasshole, but from Louisiana, Where the kingfish once ruled. So it's a way of life for them. Take a look at some of their greats. Longs, Edwards, and the list goes on.
Please name me, say, ten of the sobs. Please.