Posted on 07/13/2009 6:18:00 AM PDT by rvoitier
ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson is the first and only U.S. public official to be charged under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act since it was enacted in 1977.
He is one of only two individuals in the past five years to go to trial on charges under the act. On Friday, the other one, Connecticut businessman Frederic Bourke, was found guilty by a New York City jury.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
And they would RE-ELECT him even if in prison!
“Guess that party!”
Another non-story in the national MSM.
Oh, poignant tagline.
This thug is guilty as sin. Of course he has quite an edge, being black, liberal and a democrat. Three “get out of Jail Free cards!”
It’s a black thing?.
BTTT
“According to Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University who has been following the case, Jefferson’s best defense against the Foreign Corrupt Practices charge is that he never had any intention of bribing Abubakar, that he simply took the money from Mody and was using Mody and Abubakar “like marks in a con game.”
....classic law professor response....help the crimnal weasel out of the rap.
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