All the sordid details on Rep Jefferson.
TPM Muckraker has a pretty good collection of alot of the sordid detail of the Rep William Jefferson bribery thing. Oh, he did it.
Surprisingly, though, in all the coverage, I haven't seen a repitition of the charge around Hurricane Katrina. Does anybody else remember the reports that on day three or four, after New Orleans had been flooded when those terrible images were coming out, that Rep Jefferson took a National Guard escort to his home so he could collect some papers?
I don't know if those reports turned out to be correct or not, but they stand out in my memory as the point in which I assumed him guilty. (And, it may not have been day three or four, I'm working from memory, but I remember the story vivdly, because in the midst of the crisis, this SOB "hijacked" National Guardsmen to help him cover his ass when they could have been far more useful rescuing people.)
Surprisingly, though, in all the coverage, I haven't seen a repitition of the charge around Hurricane Katrina. Does anybody else remember the reports that on day three or four, after New Orleans had been flooded when those terrible images were coming out, that Rep Jefferson took a National Guard escort to his home so he could collect some papers?
I don't know if those reports turned out to be correct or not, but they stand out in my memory as the point in which I assumed him guilty. (And, it may not have been day three or four, I'm working from memory, but I remember the story vivdly, because in the midst of the crisis, this SOB "hijacked" National Guardsmen to help him cover his ass when they could have been far more useful rescuing people.)
posted by mikevotes at
7:28 AM
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I definately remember the story. I saw it on a TV broadcast where they interviewed him.
I wonder if they've dropped that in favor of these other, more serious charges.
If this guy is found guilty, he should be hung out to dry.
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Greyhair, at 11:40 AM
I completely agree. Guilty means guilty, and this guy is guilty.
And, I'm not enough of a lawyer to know the applicable laws for hijacking a guard unit in the middle of a national emergency, but, morally, I find that a far greater crime. People were dying needing rescue, this guy's constituents for god's sake, and Jefferson was trying to coverup.
To me that is a breach far beyond bribery. Hang em high.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 1:36 PM
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