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Affidavit: $90,000 found in democrat, congressman's freezer, also caught on tape taking bribe!
CNN ^ | May22, 2006 | Kevin Bohn and Terry Frieden

Posted on 05/22/2006 5:31:12 AM PDT by OPS4

Affidavit: $90,000 found in congressman's freezer FBI wraps up search of Jefferson's office in bribery probe WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal agents searched the Capitol Hill office of a Louisiana congressman under investigation on bribery charges Sunday, while newly released court papers said agents found $90,000 in cash last year in his Washington home. the cash sum in a freezer. The money was divided among various frozen food containers, according to the heavily redacted affidavit. Agents told a judge the money was part of a $100,000 payment that had been delivered by an informant in the bribery probe, which already has led to guilty pleas by a Kentucky businessman and a former Jefferson aide.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: black; corruption; democrats; dupe; ijustwokeup; lookinbreakingnews; politicalcorruption; search
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

Jefferson knows that the press has a short memory and that he is a part of a privileged class.

Let this settle for a few weeks and it will go the way of McKinney's assault case and Kennedy's drun driving case.

The media will let this one die down, unlike the Delay case which they kep bringing up, Thanks to their crooked DA Ronnie earle.

My prediction? Nothing will come of this.


21 posted on 05/22/2006 5:51:24 AM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: Red Badger
Yeah - Mel Reynolds...

The 'rats and their media will just ignore Jefferson, though, and continue right along with their "culture of Corruption" theme. Just watch.

22 posted on 05/22/2006 5:51:39 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Meep Meep)
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To: Red Badger

Perhaps others listed in the "heavily redacted affidavit." Something tells me this is not the first time the Congressman put a vote up for bid. And I'm sure that he has expenses as well... a chief of staff, perhaps someone in leadership to help in arrangements or timing of the vote...


23 posted on 05/22/2006 5:52:06 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll. 17,400+ snide replies and counting!)
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To: Red Badger

How can a party speak of the Culture of Corruption when they have the honor of being in the same party as Hillary Clinton.


24 posted on 05/22/2006 5:53:06 AM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: OPS4
I read elsewhere that his special visit home during Katrina w/National Guard escort was a probably connected to the hidden cash.
I'm sure others pointed that out though. I just heard it this morning.
25 posted on 05/22/2006 5:53:12 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Cool!!


26 posted on 05/22/2006 5:54:16 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Red Badger
LOL! Ejected not resigned. Was he physically ejected from Congress? :)
27 posted on 05/22/2006 5:54:38 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland
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To: sgtbono2002

"Bubble eyed buffoon" ha. Hey is there any relationship between Pelosi and the runaway bride? She's bubble eyed too. And you never the two of them together?LOL!


28 posted on 05/22/2006 5:58:08 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

No, just legally..........I think he was already in jail at the time..........AFTER the conviction......


29 posted on 05/22/2006 5:59:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
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To: sgtbono2002

See TAGLINE.......


30 posted on 05/22/2006 6:00:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
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To: Red Badger

Hillary's share, maybe.


31 posted on 05/22/2006 6:03:12 AM PDT by thoughtomator (A thread without a comment on immigration is not complete)
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To: Graymatter

Smarts is not one of the requirement to be a congressman or a senator.


32 posted on 05/22/2006 6:12:03 AM PDT by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: OPS4
While mayor Nagen and governor Blanko were like deer caught in the headlight and unable to make any kind decision, this congressman was down there making proactive decisions and rallying the troops to help get it done. True leadership like this rises to the occasion!
33 posted on 05/22/2006 6:12:10 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: OPS4

The Hobbs Act was used recently to nail four Tenn state legislators and their aids in an extortion scheme. The TENN groups was arrested under the federal Hobbs
Act, charging extortion, conspiracy to extort and attempted extortion, and accepting bribes by an agent of the state.

The Hobbs Act covers extortion by public officials, as follows: 2403 Hobbs Act -- Extortion By Force, Violence, or Fear

SOURCE October 1997 Criminal Resource Manual 2403 http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/crm02403.htm


34 posted on 05/22/2006 6:16:38 AM PDT by Liz (We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: Red Badger

MEL REYNOLDS. Ah yes. He served time in the slammer!


35 posted on 05/22/2006 6:18:16 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

He was pardoned by Klintoon, I think..........


36 posted on 05/22/2006 6:19:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
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To: Vaduz

....or president......


37 posted on 05/22/2006 6:20:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
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To: Red Badger
But he only got out after President Bill Clinton pardoned him!!!!!! Yikes! I'd totally forgotten about that....

From wikipedia:

Melvin Jay "Mel" Reynolds (born January 8, 1952) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois.

Reynolds was born in Mound Bayou, Mississippi and he graduated from Roosevelt University and the University of Illinois. An academic achiever, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Lincoln College in the University of Oxford.

Reynolds was unsuccessful in his 1986, 1988 and 1990 campaigns against Congressman Gus Savage. However, Reynolds was able to defeat Savage in 1992. He served in the House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995.

In 1994, he was indicted for having sex with a sixteen year old campaign volunteer. Reynolds initially denied what he claimed were racially motivated charges but on August 22, 1995 he was convicted on 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography. Reynolds was sentenced to five years in prison and expected to be released in 1998. However, in April of 1997, he was convicted on fifteen counts of bank fraud and lying to SEC investigators and as a result, was sentenced to an additional six and a half years in federal prison. After serving 42 months of his 78 month sentence, U.S. President Bill Clinton commuted his sentence and Reynolds served the balance in a half way house. Mel Reynolds served his entire sentence on the original charges.

In 2004, he was overwhelmingly defeated by Jesse Jackson, Jr. in his attempt to win back his old House seat.

38 posted on 05/22/2006 6:20:23 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: theDentist
Something tells me this is not the first time the Congressman put a vote up for bid.

About par for the course, I'd say, in Louisiana politics!

39 posted on 05/22/2006 6:21:14 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: sgtbono2002
My prediction? Nothing will come of this.

I do kind of wonder if he will not soon be "taking advantage of a new opportunity" as ambassador to Nigeria or something.
40 posted on 05/22/2006 6:23:06 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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