For the “Ugh” dumbassed rulings file:
“The FBI violated the Constitution when agents raided U.S. Rep. William Jefferson‚Äôs office last year and viewed legislative documents, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
The court ordered the Justice Department to return any privileged documents it seized from the Louisiana Democrat’s office on Capitol Hill. The court did not order [...]

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If arrogance had a personification, it would be fully indicted soon to be expelled Rep. “Dollar Bill” Jefferson.
” Saying “I have no fear,” Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, returned to Capitol Hill on Monday to cast his first votes since being indicted a week ago on federal corruption charges.
Jefferson strode confidently onto the House floor [...]

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“I’m innocent I tell you!”
” Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of racketeering, money-laundering and soliciting more than $400,000 in bribes in connection with years of trying to broker business deals in Africa.
Jefferson said little during the hearing in federal court in Alexandria, Va., but said he understood the charges. He [...]

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I told you so… (SEE HERE)
“Rep. William Jefferson (news, bio, voting record), 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 [...]

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Via the Hill:
“In a Thursday morning session of a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) demanded answers from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about what the lawmaker considers a lack of progress in the FBI probe of Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.).
Gonzales was expected to receive a grilling from Democrats on the House Judiciary [...]

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Things are heating up for ole Dollar Bill:
“NEW ORLEANS — An aide to U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, a congressman who allegedly stashed $90,000 in bribe money in his freezer, has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in Virginia investigating Jefferson’s African business dealings.
Despite the probe hanging over him, Jefferson, D-La., won re-election last December [...]

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This is actually great news!

“Confounding political pundits and a slew of rivals who had become confident of his defeat, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, neatly sidestepped a roiling federal corruption probe to win re-election on Saturday to his ninth term in Congress.
Guilty pleas by aides and associates who admitted to bribing the congressman and [...]

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Although the MSM in this country has been busy using Bob Woodward’s book to re-define history, another more explosive story is about to be unleashed just in time to send Democrats scrambling for Pepto.
All the buzz around the DOJ water cooler is about one Rep. “Dollar Bill” Jefferson. What orginally was thought to [...]

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While Time Magazine ask, “Who’s the Next Target in the Abramoff Probe?”, and then goes on to guess “A whole lot of Republicans!”, the fact is that there are also “A whole lot of Democrats!” in the probe sights as well.
The press has given sporadic coverage, mostly about six months ago, into Senator Harry [...]

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Rep. “Dollar Bill” Jefferson won a small victory yesterday, but it’s a real small victory. He gets to look at the documents seized in the constitutional raid on his office.
“A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that prosecutors may not examine documents seized from Rep. William J. Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office until the congressman has [...]

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