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Friday, November 20, 2009
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The investigation and trial of former Rep. William Jefferson
| 2009-07-09 | |
| ALEXANDRIA, VA. — Jurors on Wednesday were taken into the infamous home freezer of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, where $90,000 of marked FBI money was found. Through a series of color pictures displayed on courtroom video screens, the eight women and four men jurors in Jefferson’s bribery trial were shown the food boxes of Pillsbury Pie Crust and Boca Burgers where much of the money was stuffed. | |
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| 2009-07-08 | |
| ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Jurors in the bribery trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson watched video Tuesday of him tossing a bulging tan briefcase with $100,000 he received from an FBI informant into the passenger seat of his car. | |
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| 2009-07-07 | |
| ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Federal prosecutors spent Monday trying to tie former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson to the Nigerian vice president he allegedly intended to bribe. | |
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| 2009-07-06 | |
| ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The bribery trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson has been like a segment of the old television show “This Is Your Life.” Friends and former associates have to walk around the defense table where the man they knew simply as “Jeff” sits during the proceedings. They go to the witness box and must turn, look and identify their former colleague, who has pleaded innocent to bribery, conspiracy, racketeering and money laundering. | |
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| 2009-07-03 | |
| ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Jurors in the trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson heard secretly recorded conversations Thursday that put them at the table of a $1,000 dinner where FBI agents said he solicited a bribe. | |
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| 2009-07-02 | |
| ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In a secretly recorded conversation played for the jury in the bribery trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson on Wednesday, an ex-aide told the FBI’s key witness his old boss was doing nothing wrong in pushing a Nigerian telecommunications deal. | |
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| 2009-07-01 | |
| ALEXANDRIA, Va. — An ex-aide to former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson testified Tuesday that Jefferson asked him for 5 to 7 percent of a Nigerian telecommunications company that stood to gain “hundreds of millions.” | |
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| 2009-06-30 | |
| ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A federal judge said Monday that the wife of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson could be considered part of his alleged bribery conspiracy. | |
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| 2009-06-27 | |
| WASHINGTON — Government prosecutors spent Friday trying to convince a jury in the bribery case of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson that he acted in his official capacity as a congressman while promoting an American telecommunications company in Africa. | |
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| 2009-06-26 | |
| WASHINGTON — The sentence in the spring 2004 letter to the president of Nigeria couldn’t be any more straightforward. “I have been careful to avoid conflicts and shady dealings,” wrote then-U.S. Rep. William Jefferson. | |
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| 2009-06-25 | |
| WASHINGTON — A Nigerian telecommunications company owner said Wednesday that he agreed to pay up to $10 million in what he considered a bribe to former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson. | |
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| 2009-06-23 | |
| WASHINGTON — The federal judge in the bribery trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson lashed out Monday at attorneys in the case for the slow pace of the proceedings. | |
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| 2009-06-22 | |
| WASHINGTON – Before they rest their case in the bribery trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, government prosecutors said they intend to call 49 witnesses. In addition, they plan to introduce 950 exhibits. And then there are hours of secretly recorded audio tapes. | |
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| 2009-06-20 | |
| WASHINGTON — U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, of Alexandria, Va., took a break Friday in the trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of New Orleans. | |
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| 2009-06-19 | |
| WASHINGTON – Jurors in the bribery trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson got their first chance Thursday to listen to secretly recorded government tapes that include Jefferson expressing worry about landing in the “pokey.” | |
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| 2009-06-18 | |
| WASHINGTON – Jurors in the bribery trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson got their first chance Thursday to listen to secretly recorded government tapes that include Jefferson expressing worry about landing in the “pokey.” | |
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| WASHINGTON — In the second day of testimony in the bribery trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, a Kentucky businessman told the jury Wednesday that he paid $330,000 to Jefferson’s wife even though she did no work. | |
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| 2009-06-17 | |
| WASHINGTON — He hid the money in his freezer to keep it from being stolen by intruders or his housekeeper. That was the explanation the defense attorney for former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson gave to jurors in Tuesday’s opening day of the bribery trial against the New Orleans Democrat. | |
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| 2009-06-12 | |
| WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors and defense lawyers in the public corruption trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson picked a jury Thursday with opening statements scheduled for Tuesday. | |
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| 2009-06-10 | |
| WASHINGTON — The past three years have not been good for the family of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson. Jury selection continues today in the trial of Jefferson, who has pleaded innocent to 16 public corruption charges. | |
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| 2009-06-09 | |
| ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury chosen from nearly 100 northern Virginians who reported to court on Tuesday will decide the fate of former Congressman William Jefferson charged with taking bribes and other crimes. | |
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| WASHINGTON — After four years, jury selection in the trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, of New Orleans, is set to get under way today with many people awaiting the answer to one question: What was he doing with $90,000 in his home freezer? | |
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| 2009-05-30 | |
| An indicted former legislator is indefinitely stepping down from her administrative job at Southern University at New Orleans, the college said Friday. | |
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| 2009-05-28 | |
| ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge on Wednesday delayed yet again the trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson to give his attorneys a week to look for an expert witness. | |
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| 2009-05-19 | |
| WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal by former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson to throw out public corruption charges that he claimed violated constitutional protection. | |
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| 2009-04-13 | |
| WASHINGTON — Louisiana’s U.S. senators are leading the charge on what one interest group is calling an increasingly advantageous political stance: national animal-welfare legislation. | |
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| 2009-03-02 | |
| NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana’s Republican Party and the Republican National Committee spent almost $42,000 apiece on a coordinated effort to defeat scandal-plagued U.S. Rep. William Jefferson last year, but they wanted to spend more. | |
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| 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 | |
| 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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