Friday, May 16, 2008
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The Jefferson investigation
| 2007-06-12 | |
| NEW ORLEANS — A group calling itself the Justice for Jefferson Committee has formed in support of indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans. Danatus King, a lawyer and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s New Orleans chapter, is the committee’s co-chairman. | |
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| WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. William Jefferson is facing legal bills that could reach $2 million to fight complex public corruption charges that include bribery, racketeering and money laundering, lawyers said. | |
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| 2007-06-07 | |
| ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge Thursday froze assets of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., who was indicted this week on charges of soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. Among the 16 criminal counts Jefferson is facing is a criminal forfeiture count, and prosecutors have already said they will seek to recoup money that they believe Jefferson obtained illegally by peddling his influence to help broker business deals in Africa. | |
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| 2007-06-06 | |
| WASHINGTON — Charles McBride remembers the 1972 phone call from a young Harvard law school graduate seeking a place to stay in Washington. McBride was chief of staff for then U.S. Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La. The man who would eventually live in McBride’s home while working as Johnston’s legislative aide for two years was Bill Jefferson, who later became a United States congressman. | |
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| 2007-06-05 | |
| WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. William Jefferson became the first member of Congress to be charged with overseas corporate bribery when he was indicted Monday on charges of racketeering, bribery and money laundering. “No one would have thought the investigation of a congressman would take us out of the country,” said Kevin Kaiser, head of the FBI’s criminal division. | |
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| Timeline leading to indictment. | |
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| From the nation’s capital to the State Capitol to the governor’s mansion, reaction to Monday’s indictment of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, on federal corruption charges was swift and ranged from “regrettable’’ to “troubling’’ to “sad.’’ | |
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| 2007-06-04 | |
| U.S. Rep. William Jefferson was indicted Monday on several federal charges. The indictment comes after a bribery investigation that followed Jefferson for years |
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| WASHINGTON (AP) -- The $90,000 the FBI says it found in Rep. William Jefferson's freezer wasn't the death knell of his political career. | |
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| July 30, 2005: The FBI alleges Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., accepted $100,000 in a briefcase from an FBI informant. Jefferson believes the informant, Lori Mody, is collaborating with him in a scheme to bribe Nigerian officials so the pair can enter the Nigerian telecommunications market, according to the FBI. | |
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| 2006-05-22 | |
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| Rep. William Jefferson called a press conference Monday afternoon in Washington, D.C. in the wake of an FBI search of his office there and the bribery accusations surrounding him. |
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