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Jefferson Trial Set for Late February

By Paul Kiel - December 14, 2007, 1:54PM

From Roll Call (sub. req.):

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis on Friday morning delayed for six weeks the beginning of Rep. William Jefferson’s corruption trial, rejecting a request from the Louisiana Democrat’s lawyers to push the start date back four to six months.
The trial is now scheduled to begin Feb. 25.

So nearly two and a half years after the feds found $90,000 in Jefferson's freezer (he'd accepted a briefcase full of $100,000 in cash from an FBI informant in a hotel parking lot), he'll finally get his day in court. We're looking forward to it.

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Anonymous wrote on December 14, 2007 3:45 PM:

Here's hoping this crook beats Cunningham's record for longest prison sentence for a sitting congressman.

Throw away the fucking key.

-- Anonymous Democrat

Wesley Cannon wrote on December 14, 2007 5:34 PM:

He wasn't known as "Dollar" Bill Jefferson for nothing.

I assume you heard about his adventures during Katrina?

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