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It’s About )(*#$@#@ Time: Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) Convicted

I’d rather have slow justice than a swift railroading, but good lord does it feel like this was a very long time in coming:

Former Rep. William Jefferson — the Louisiana Democrat in whose freezer the FBI found $90,000 during a 2005 raid — has been found guilty on 11 out of 16 federal charges.

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4 Comments

  1. Amazing how this obvious conviction did not happen before or during the Obama election. This should have been cut and dry but those with control kept it from being a issue during the campaign…

  2. MB

    So you’re saying that the Bush Administration slow-walked this trial to assist the Obama election effort?

    Okay.

  3. I saw that if the democratic party was in control at the time it would have been pushed through with only enough delay to allow the press to saturate with select facts the public perception for their political gain….

    Unfortunately, No fortunately, we operate by a different set of rules….

  4. MB

    So what we’re doing here is calling out the Democrats for what they would have done, if they could have? Am I getting that right?

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