Dionne Searcey The Wall Street Journal reported that former member of the Louisiana William Jefferson was sentenced to 13 years in prison Friday for corruption Plans in accordance with a freezer full of bribe money in the case of Teddy Veggie Burger boxes.
A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, gave his sentence in the Jefferson, 62, a Democrat, voters ousted last year. He was sentenced Corruption, money laundering and organized crime in systems that prosecutors said it has enriched and developed his family. Click here for earlier LB coverage of the saga of Jefferson; here for the Department of Justice U. S. Press release.
The Prosecutor has killed at least 27 years for Jefferson, a sentence that less likely to have a life sentence and the defense Lawyers call unprecedented. In search of defense lawyers for leniency
Jefferson said he was from humble origins to become "the Risen the best educational institutions of the nation's highest passes Power.
Lawyers who looks under 10, Jefferson, said it would proceed to the decision. Jefferson seven weeks of the study includes video and audio tapes of him Meeting with a federal informant in the hotel restaurants in Washington DC.
Prosecutors said he used his position in Congress, plans to develop Help pay tuition for their daughters. Jefferson was in a Sub-committee on trade and is said to have taken on companies
entered his office for help with offers of Africa.
Defense lawyers presented Jefferson and unethical, but not
Criminal and said he was the victim of over-aggressive pursuit of the objective
in "catching a member of Congress." They said that Jefferson was caught by
Investigators that the informant to try to grab the cable.
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