Ex-Congressman William Jefferson Gets 13 Years

Former Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson was sentenced to 13 years in prison for using his office to solicit bribes.

Jefferson, 62, was convicted of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and unlawfully seeking millions more, mainly by promoting business deals in Africa. Prosecutors claimed he was involved in 11 separate bribery schemes from August 2000 to August 2005 and that he and his family stood to gain more than half a billion dollars.

The Louisiana Democrat…was videotaped in July 2005 accepting $100,000 in a leather briefcase at a hotel in Arlington, Virginia, and putting it in his car. About $90,000 in the marked bills were later recovered from Pillsbury pie crusts and Boca meatless burger patty boxes in the freezer of his Washington residence.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.