Nothing to see here. Just Move On, Citizens.
(Washington Post) – [1] Federal prosecutors on Friday accused Rep. William J. Jefferson [2] (D-La.) of soliciting bribes in two alleged schemes that had not been previously disclosed.
The allegations, detailed in a seven-page document filed in U.S. District Court [3] in Alexandria [4], will not result in new charges, prosecutors said, but they plan to present them during Jefferson’s federal bribery trial as evidence of a pattern of intentional wrongdoing.
[5] In 2002, the government alleges, Jefferson asked a lobbyist of a U.S. oil service company for $10,000 a month for a family member in exchange for Jefferson’s assisting the company in promoting business in Africa [6]. The lobbyist turned down Jefferson’s request, the document said.
Three years later, according to the filing, Jefferson allegedly agreed to urge NASA [7] in a letter to consider doing business with a U.S. rocket technology and rocket launch services company. In exchange, the company allegedly agreed to pay Jefferson’s family business and a relative.
Ho hum. More Democrat corruption. Nothing to see here.
Mind you, Jefferson isn’t the only bit of Corruption… merely the one that’s been caught. Where are the cries from the left to remove this guy from office? Maybe they got tired after Tom Delay, huh?
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