Posted on 05/22/2006 5:31:12 AM PDT by OPS4
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.
The 'rats and their media will just ignore Jefferson, though, and continue right along with their "culture of Corruption" theme. Just watch.
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...
How can a party speak of the Culture of Corruption when they have the honor of being in the same party as Hillary Clinton.
Cool!!
"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!
No, just legally..........I think he was already in jail at the time..........AFTER the conviction......
See TAGLINE.......
Hillary's share, maybe.
Smarts is not one of the requirement to be a congressman or a senator.
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
MEL REYNOLDS. Ah yes. He served time in the slammer!
He was pardoned by Klintoon, I think..........
....or president......
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.
About par for the course, I'd say, in Louisiana politics!
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