Thursday, July 30, 2009
Jerry Markon, Washington Post,
Jerry Markon, Washington Post,
Jefferson Was ‘Stupid’ but No Criminal, Defense Says
Former congressman William J. Jefferson was "stupid" and exercised "awful judgment" in stashing $90,000 in potential bribe money in his freezer, but his actions did not constitute a crime, defense attorneys said Wednesday during closing arguments in the Louisiana Democrat's corruption trial.
Prosecutors painted the $90,000 -- famously found by the FBI tucked inside frozen food containers -- in a starkly different light. They said the cold cash was intended to bribe the vice president of Nigeria, part of a pattern of illicit acts in which Jefferson shook down business partners for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribe money while offering bribes of his own.
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