It took four years, but former Rep. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson was finally convicted Wednesday of charges that included accepting bribes and engaging in money laundering. The Louisiana Democrat could get more than 20 years in prison, though he is still free on bail pending an appeal. Jefferson was filmed in 2005 taking $100,000 in bribes from a government informant, and FBI agents found $90,000 in marked bills in his freezer.
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Ahhh, the wheels of justice are so swift!
It was a complicated case though.
The evidence was very difficult to analyze. It’s so grey, when you find cold hard cash in someone’s freezer, to determine if it was actually bribe money or not.
I’m sure O’Bama will pardon him.
Guess the Jeffersons aren’t Movin On Up anymore.
Movin On Up
Well we’re movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe jail cell in the sky.
Movin on up,
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of Bubba!
Bill don’t fry in the lectric chair;
Bill don’t burn on the grill.
Took a whole lotta tryin’,
Just to get in the jail cell.
Now we’re up in the big leagues,
Gettin’ our turn at Bubba’s bat.
As long as we live, it’s you and me baby,
There ain’t nothin wrong with that.
Well we’re movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up,
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of Bubba!
NPR had a good report about how Jefferson’s convictions (deserved) tell us less about the FBI during the Shrub/Cheney years than his acquittals.
He was found guilty of 11 counts against him. Seven of the charges resulted in acquittal because of systematic abuse of the Constitution by John Ashcroft’s DOJ.
Democratic Party values and ideas represented well by
CongressmanConvict William “Cold Cash” Jefferson.Just more proof of what a racist nation America is.
Jefferson headed to the cooler. No loss.
I guess Republican values are represented by David Vitter (and Mark Sandford, John Ensign etc) IF only Jefferson had a quasi religulous group to fall back into and maybe he could have had Tom Coburn give him a gynecological exam too.
Spitzer gets caught with a hooker, he’s out of a job.
David Vitter hires a hooker to dress him in diapers so he schitt himself on her, he runs for reelection.
Jefferson gets caught with his hand in the
cookie jarand gets bounced out of office.Mark Sanford “hikes the Appalachian Trail” on the taxpayers’ dime, stays on as Governor.
Mark Foley boinks underage pages in the butt and gets a lucrative job with a right wing “think” tank.
John Ensign boinks his best friend’s wife and gets his parents to buy her off.
Okay, so all the offenses are unique. There’s no real common thread other than all pols tend toward narcissism and arrogance.
Just seems like Democrats are better at weeding out the bad seeds.
On the other hand, CONs tend to rely on bad seeds for their “grassroots” support.
Shoulda been –
cookie jarfreezer…Ah, I knew it!
Instead of discussing the current topic, duh Libs will bring up any and all transgressions ever done by Republicans regardless how irrelevant it is.
Libs only know how to divert to defend the actions of their criminal Congressmen.
“Regular” –
This particular “libruhl” and others fully admitted Jefferson was a low-level crook, like a lot of Louisiana pols.
No “libruhl” has defended Jefferson.
No CON has spoken up to impeach Sanford or censure Vitter or Ensign, now have you?
Not a wet eye in the crowd, when it’s a dem, but if it’s a repub the weeping and moaning is ceaseless.
Monkeyhawk
Posted August 6, 2009 at 12:27 pm | Permalink
“Regular” –
No “libruhl” has defended Jefferson.
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Lies!
Everytime a Jefferson thread came up, dub Libs would come up with – This Con did this or this Repug did that.
Just as you attempted to do here – some things never change in the finger-pointing world of Libdom.
About all we ever said in his defense is wait till he gets his day in court. Maybe when he was used as an example of dem values, we’d come back at you with your own.
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Regular
Posted August 6, 2009 at 11:42 am | Permalink
Democratic Party values and ideas represented well by Congressman Convict William “Cold Cash” Jefferson.
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Regular
Posted August 6, 2009 at 12:09 pm | Permalink
Ah, I knew it!
Instead of discussing the current topic, duh Libs will bring up any and all transgressions ever done by Republicans regardless how irrelevant it is.
Libs only know how to divert to defend the actions of their criminal Congressmen.
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Hypocrite, anyone?
Phantom
Posted August 6, 2009 at 12:51 pm | Permalink
Not a wet eye in the crowd, when it’s a dem, but if it’s a repub the weeping and moaning is ceaseless.
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Don’t leave out the Republicans threatening to have their C Street God strike us all down if we dare say anything about their ‘chosen ones’ who are the masters of us all.
You do know that only Liberal Democrats are going to be in Hell, don’t you?
If their C Street God is okay with adultery, payoffs and all that secrecy – then he must be one sorry little God.
As for Jefferson being convicted – good. But for every one person that gets caught, I bet there are 5 more needing to get caught.
The only problem for Republicans is that Jefferson wasn’t on ‘their side’. The man showed promise to get all that cash – didn’t he?
‘He could have been a contender’ – maybe they would have put him in as RNC chairman instead of Steele?
See, Republicans can be just as diverse..
I think that when elected public officaials are convicted of accepting bribes , there should be a “surcharge” added to their sentence , i.e. , an additional 5 or 10 years. Probably not likely to occurr, but the thought is attractive.
I have maintained for a long time that neither party has a lock on morals…and it is sadly proven time and time again.
most people (except, of course, the out of control extremists) would agree with that sentiment.
The entire Congress, in my opinion, is corrupt and should be removed. there are a few first term idealists, who still believe in “democracy”, but cynicism and politics soon destroy that idealism.
I like the surcharge idea.
Dennis
If you bumbling cons will recall, every one of us here on the blog who were democrats wanted to see him tried and not re-elected. THere is no racism to be had in this argument. I was downright disappointed in my own party when he was re-elected. The difference was that while we were dismayed and openly speaking out against Jefferson, the cons continued to defend, deflect, deny all of the bad stuff their own party supported.
What Bush did should have been to go after his own party as well. I have no qualms about Jefferson getting busted, but the way in which he was singled out in his investigation.
Regular we NEVER SAID he wasn’t guilty. We just pointed out, again, while we were asking for justice, YOU PEOPLE continued to defend your own party’s scumbags. But hey, birds of a feather….
Do you see the difference…we didn’t defend him…you continue to defend your liars and cheats.
Political_mama
Posted August 6, 2009 at 5:59 pm | Permalink
If you bumbling cons will recall, every one of us here on the blog who were democrats wanted to see him tried and not re-elected.
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Well, probably only because he was 100% Black.
totoinks said If their C Street God is okay with adultery, payoffs and all that secrecy – then he must be one sorry little God.
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I think you ought to be more concerned with the account of your life you will give to the real God someday.
Gawd Chris, I’m probably more moral and good than you people and I’m not even a christian.
Just your attitude says what kind of people you are.
Political_mama
Posted August 6, 2009 at 6:31 pm | Permalink
Gawd Chris, I’m probably more moral and good than you people and I’m not even a christian.
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Should we start addressing you as Saint mama from now on?
Yes you should.
Hussein OWEbama’s first pardon
Let’s see….now wasn’t he another Dim-ocrat.
Hum, seems to be a lot of them, either crooks or tax dodgers.
Must be systemic with Dimocrats.