Filing: Tape Shows Lawmaker Taking Money
By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press Writer

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.

Jefferson, who represents New Orleans, has not been charged and denies any wrongdoing.

As for the $100,000, the government says Jefferson got the money in a leather briefcase last July 30 at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Arlington. The plan was for the lawmaker to use the cash to bribe a high-ranking Nigerian official _ the name is blacked out in the court document _ to ensure the success of a business deal in that country, the affidavit said.

read on here:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/21/D8HOCUJ81.html

Ugh. Will government corruption never cease?

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."
– Edward Langley

It may never cease but would certainly take a hit if 3 to 5 more parties entered our locked 2 party system.

I think four parties should do it.

Liberals
Conservatives
Libertarians
Communitarians

There, that's everyone in a nutshell... Well, except for Communists and Nazis and such, but who needs 'em anyway?

what in the world is a communtarian? Is that someone from Mr. Roger's neighborhood?

No, it's basically the opposite of libertarianism. It focuses on the community as the basic unit in society, instead of the individual. It also tends to be somewhat anti-cap and civil society oriented, without being socialist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communitarian

Interesting. I'll have to check into that some more.

Interesting indeed. I too need to check it out.

The Democrats have fostered a CULTURE OF CORRUPTION!

shut the hell up. The US elite has fostered that culture.. Not just the democrats.