Indicted congressman steps down from House panel (Jefferson with link to indictment PDF)

[seriousstan]

Source: cnn

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Louisiana congressman William Jefferson on Tuesday requested temporary leave as a member of the House Small Business Committee, a day after he was indicted by a federal grand jury on a raft of corruption charges.

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prosecutors Monday alleged that Jefferson took more than $500,000 in bribes and sought millions more, using a network of family companies to conceal the money.

The 95-page, 16-count indictment came nearly two years after federal agents reported finding $90,000 in a freezer in Jefferson's Washington home. It accuses him of racketeering, money laundering, obstruction of justice and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. (Read the text of the indictment in PDF)

"Mr. Jefferson corruptly traded on his good office and on the Congress, where he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, to enrich himself and his family through a pervasive pattern of fraud, bribery, and corruption that spanned many years and two continents," said Chuck Rosenberg, the U.S. attorney in Alexandria, Virginia, where the charges were brought. (Watch U.S. attorney detail charges )

full text of indictment in PDF...

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/06/04/jefferson.indict.pdf








Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/05/congressman.bribery/index.html

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. why was he on a committee?

[Ferretherder]

2. I'm from Louisiana, and I say,...

...GOOD RIDDANCE! GET THE BUM OUTTA' HERE!

Seriously, corruption is corruption. Left or right, clean it up!