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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Cold Cash William Jefferson Convicted

Bwa ha ha ha! I love it when CommieCrats are convicted.

DEMOCRAT EX-REPRESENTATIVE (let's say that again, "EX-REPRESENTATIVE" - gosh I like the sound of that!) William Jefferson was CONVICTED OF CORRUPTION. CNN:

    Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana was convicted Wednesday on 11 of the 16 corruption charges against him in a case that included the discovery of $90,000 in his freezer.

    A federal court jury convicted Jefferson on four bribery counts, three counts of money laundering, three counts of wire fraud and one count of racketeering. He was acquitted on five other counts including wire fraud and obstruction of justice.

    Jefferson, a 62-year-old Democrat, was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 4, 2007, about two years after federal agents said they found the cash in his freezer. Authorities said the cash was part of a payment in marked bills from an FBI informant in a transaction captured on video.

    Jefferson had pleaded not guilty. He faces a maximum possible sentence of 150 years in prison, with sentencing tentatively set for October 30.

    After the verdict on the fifth day of jury deliberations, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis turned down a prosecution request for Jefferson to be taken into custody, ruling that he posed no flight risk.

    The verdict showed that "no person, not even a congressman, is above the law," said U.S. Attorney Dana Boente of the Eastern District of Virginia. Asked what might have turned the case in the prosecution's favor, Boente said: "We always thought that a powerful piece of evidence in this case was $90,000 in a freezer."

    A stern-faced Jefferson emerged from the courthouse with his lawyer, Robert Trout, who said the verdict would be appealed.

    "We're very disappointed that the jury disagreed with us," Trout said.

    Asked how he was holding up, Jefferson smiled briefly and answered, "I'm holding up," before walking away.

    Jefferson was accused of using his congressional clout between 2001 and 2005 to solicit and receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for himself and his family in exchange for promoting products and services in Africa, especially Nigeria, and elsewhere.

    The information on the cash discovered in Jefferson's Washington home in August 2005 was revealed in an affidavit used to obtain a warrant to search Jefferson's office in May 2006. Descriptions from the heavily redacted affidavit and pictures of the open freezer show bills wrapped in foil and tucked into frozen food containers, including a box for pie crusts and another for veggie burgers.

    FBI agents told a judge the money was part of a $100,000 payment delivered by an informant in the bribery investigation, which led to guilty pleas by a Kentucky businessman and a former Jefferson aide.

Uh-huh, yeah. The only disappointment is that the jury didn't render a not-guilty verdict for this corrupt criminal CommieCrat.


Cold Cash Jefferson. Ouch! Freezer Burn!

Take a moment and reacquaint yourselves with Jefferson's Musical Anthem located at this post.

Throw this Liberal POS in jail and toss the key to the cell in the Atlantic Ocean.

Wooooo Hoooooooooooooo! I want to see Cold Cash Jefferson do the Perp Walk. Don't you?

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