{"id":736,"date":"2007-06-04T15:47:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T20:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/06\/04\/democrat-william-jefferson-of-louisiana-indicted\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T15:47:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T20:47:19","slug":"democrat-william-jefferson-of-louisiana-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/democrat-william-jefferson-of-louisiana-indicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat William Jefferson of Louisiana indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grand jury has indicted Democratic Representative William Jefferson of Louisiana on corruption charges. The <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/resources\/documents\/jefferson.indict.pdf\">16-count indictment<\/a> includes charges of racketeering, soliciting bribes, depriving citizens of honest services, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Racketeering Influence Corrupt Organization, and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2005, law enforcement found $90,000 in Jefferson&#8217;s freezer during a raid of his New Orleans house. He has been under investigation for accepting bribes.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, one of Jefferson&#8217;s aides pleaded guilty to bribery and greed to help the prosecution. Vernon Jackson, a CEO of a technology firm in Louisville, has also admitted to trying to bribe Jefferson. There also exists a vidoe of Jefferson accepting a bribe from a company that asked for help to win business in Nigeria.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+l+coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/rico\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/bribery\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sequence+inc\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/racketeering\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/corruption\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/money+laundering\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grand jury has indicted Democratic Representative William Jefferson of Louisiana on corruption charges. The 16-count indictment includes charges of racketeering, soliciting bribes, depriving citizens of honest services, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Racketeering Influence Corrupt Organization, and money laundering. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-bS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}