Dirty Democrat and former Representative William Jefferson has started his thirteen year federal sentence for corruption and bribery. You may remember he was found with almost $100,000 in cash in his home freezer.
(NOLA)- Former Democratic Rep. William Jefferson reported Friday to the low-security federal prison in Beaumont, Texas, to begin serving a 13-year sentence, the longest ever for a congressional member. Jefferson, 65, arrived about 40 minutes ahead of the noon deadline set by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III who presided over Jefferson's 2009 trial for corruption and bribery.
It marked a dramatic change for the man who had risen from a childhood in Lake Providence, one of north Louisiana's poorest communities, to a Harvard law degree, a leadership role in the Louisiana Legislature and nine-terms in Congress representing New Orleans, including a spot on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. [...]
Jefferson was convicted of orchestrating a series of schemes in which he used his position to promote business deals in Africa, in exchange for payments and a promised share of profits. Prosecutors said Jefferson had turned his congressional office into a criminal racketeering enterprise. Ellis said his conduct was "a cancer on the body politic." Keep on reading...
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