In case you’ve been living under a rock, the case against Congressman William Jefferson (D-LA, almost certainly corrupt) is going to be extremely strong. At the moment, the FBI is wrapped up in an attempt to get permission to use the documents they obtained in an unprecedented raid of the Congressman’s office several months ago, […]
It’s looking less and less like Representative William Jefferson (D-La, amost certainly corrupt) is going to be indicted before the midterm elections. TPMMuckraker predicts it isn’t gonna happen until after the midterms because the case got tied up in all sorts of extra-legal issues regarding the controversial raid on the Congressman’s offices earlier this year. […]
House Democrats are taking a principled stance in the case of fellow Democrat William Jefferson of Louisiana, who is almost certainly corrupt. They voted late yesterday to kick Jefferson out of his position on the House Ways and Means committee. Funny how you never saw Republicans acting so responsibly in the case of Duke Cunningham, […]
The Katrina-pulitzer-winning Times Picayune reports on William Jefferson (D-La, almost certainly corrupt) the following:
“When all is said and done, you will see that there is an honorable explanation for everything you are reading about,” Jefferson said, remaining relaxed throughout the interview, his feet slung up on a coffee table. “I believe an impartial forum can […]
Okay, you already know how I feel about Rep William Jefferson (D-La, almost certainly corrupt), and you know that I don’t hold back on expressing these feelings (he’s a son of a bitch). But I don’t hold any illusions as to not pre-judging him; due to the overwhelming and consistent evidence that has been leaked […]
The more I read about William Jefferson, the more corrupt and downright dirty he seems. Not only was he corrupt, he was also greedy. This guy is going to serve some serious time. Washington Post’s front page provides new details.
On May 12, 2005, over dinner with business partner and FBI informant Lori Mody, Rep. William […]
Apparently the fight isn’t over yet, even though Hastert seems to be somewhat placated. NYT:
An F.B.I. raid on a congressman’s office 10 days ago was heavily criticized today during hearings before the House Judiciary Committee, with members and witnesses saying it violated the separation of powers provided by the Constitution between the legislative and executive […]
The WaPo has an article on the Jefferson raid, and how it served as a trigger or something. Quoth the Post:
Whether out of party loyalty or wartime solidarity, the Republican Congress largely deferred to the Republican president for five years as he expanded executive power.
When President Bush set up his own new military justice system […]
This is so surreal. On Friday I wrote a piece in which I mused about the possibile signifigance of the search on William Jefferson’s office: specifically the idea that they certainly didn’t need to raid his office because they already have enough evidence to indict. I suggested that perhaps there were other targets they were […]
This is really more about Hastert than Jefferson, but this wouldn’t have come out without him. Some interesting insight from the Times today:
Speaker J. Dennis Hastert is moving publicly to put his constitutional showdown with the Justice Department in the past, but many on Capitol Hill believe that the bitter confrontation will resonate in the […]
Associated Press has an article out titled “House leaders concede FBI right to search.” The headline, to me at least, seems a tad bit misleading because it sort of implies that hastert and Pelosi have said that the FBI was right to search Jefferson’s offices in the way that they did.
Pelosi and Hastert have said […]
I don’t think anybody saw this coming. It appears (okay, NYT is reporting) that Attorney General Gonzales may have actually threatened the President with his resignation if he turned the evidence seized by the FBI from congressman William Jefferson’s office late last week.
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, and […]
It’s really not a matter of whether or not William Jefferson (D-La, likely corrupt) will be indicted or not. It’s a question of when. And everything we’ve heard so far indicates that the answer to the “when” question is either June or July.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the feds didn’t really need to raid his […]
The Hill reports:
In the past year and a half, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reassigned nearly 200 agents to the problem of public corruption, bringing to 600 the total number of agents working on public-integrity cases.
Analysis over at over at MyDD.
Congressman William Jefferson’s papers have been sealed by order of the President for 45 days, after fire from House leaders.
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