Monday, May 22, 2006

Coming Back To Bite 'Em

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When the Abramoff and Duke Cunningham stories broke, the donks were all over it telling anyone who would listen that the GOP was fully corrupt.

This kind of makes Cunninghams' antics look pale:

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.

$100K could've helped alot of Katrina victims.

Stephen Green has more.

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