{"id":198305,"date":"2007-11-19T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/19\/william-jefferson-charges-mount\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T11:17:00","slug":"william-jefferson-charges-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/19\/william-jefferson-charges-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"William Jefferson Charges Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to be clear, corruption is not a uniquely Republican activity, as is shown by way of Congressman William Jerfferson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/17\/AR2007111701287.html\">who has two more allegations against him<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The allegations, detailed in a seven-page document filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, will not result in new charges, prosecutors said, but they plan to present them during Jefferson&#8217;s federal bribery trial as evidence of a pattern of intentional wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, the government alleges, Jefferson asked a lobbyist of a U.S. oil service company for $10,000 a month for a family member in exchange for Jefferson&#8217;s assisting the company in promoting business in Africa. The lobbyist turned down Jefferson&#8217;s request, the document said.<\/p>\n<p>Three years later, according to the filing, Jefferson allegedly agreed to urge NASA in a letter to consider doing business with a U.S. rocket technology and rocket launch services company. In exchange, the company allegedly agreed to pay Jefferson&#8217;s family business and a relative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, when one looks at Cunningham, Ted Stevens, etc. this one guy does not seem to be all that much.<\/p>\n<p>There are two reasons for the disparity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From 1994-2006, the Democrats were in the minority.<\/li>\n<li>Republicans believe that government is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">unmitigated evil<\/span>, and as such, the path to bribery is easier, since they believe that they are already doing evil, so it&#8217;s about power and wealth to begin with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jefferson was found with thousands of dollars in his freezer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to be clear, corruption is not a uniquely Republican activity, as is shown by way of Congressman William Jerfferson, who has two more allegations against him: The allegations, detailed in a seven-page document filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, will not result in new charges, prosecutors said, but they plan to present them &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}