meerkat1
22.05.06, 04:05
Ze jakis kongresman moze wziac lapowke - to nie szok.
Ale zeby DEMOKRATA? I to w dodatku z NOWEGO ORLEANU??!
No ale skoro wzial ja w studolarowkach i schowal do lodowki, to zaczyna to
brzmiec prawdopodobnie. :-)))
P.S. A tymczasem mieszkancy Nowego Orleanu wybrali ponownie burmistrzem
znanego ze sprawnosci i uczciwosci Raya Nagina (D).
By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press Writer
ALEXANDRIA, Va.
A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape
accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations
with the lawmaker also were recorded, according to a court document released
Sunday. Agents later found the cash hidden in his freezer.
At one audiotaped meeting, Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., chuckles about
writing in code to keep secret what the government contends was his corrupt
role in getting his children a cut of a communications company's deal for
work in Africa.
As Jefferson and the informant passed notes about what percentage the
lawmaker's family might receive, the congressman "began laughing and
said, 'All these damn notes we're writing to each other as if we're talking,
as if the FBI is watching,'" according to the affidavit.
Jefferson, who represents New Orleans, has not been charged and denies any
wrongdoing.
