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Thursday, June 8, 2006
Is a double
standard in play
for Jefferson?
By Hazel Trice Edney
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PU&.ISHERS ASSOCIATION
WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Rep, Dan Rostenkowski (D-
m.) served in Congress 36 years luitil 1995 when he lost re-elec
tion. Charged with keepir^ ghost employees on his payroll,
using Congressional money to buy gifts and trading in officially
purchased stamps for cash, he pled guilty to the
lesser chaise of mail fraud, served 15 of a 17-
month sentence in prison and was later pardoned
by President Bih Clinton.
Similarly former U. S. Rep. Joe McDade (R-Pa.)
was indicted on bribery and racketeering chains
in 1992 after the Federal Bureau of Investigation
spent eight years probing his pohtical activities.
Ultimatd.y a jury acquitted him in 1996.
Despite the severity of the chaig-es and ler^ths
Jefferson
of the investigations in the cases of Rostenkowski, McDade, and
many other congressional lawmakers since the founding of the
United States, the FBI had never raided a Congressional office.
Not until May 20 when 15 agents seardied and seried docu
ments from the Capitol Hill office of U. S. Rep. William
Jefferson (D-La.), who has been accused of accepting bribes in
exchange for using his influence in private dealings with high-
tech businesses in Nigeria, Cameroon and Ghana.
While Jefferson, a Harvard-trained lawyer and constitutional
scholars around the nation debate wheffier the federal agency
violated the separation of powers provision of -the U. S.
Constitution, there are enough troubling questions for every
one. Of course, Jefferson needs to explain the $90,000 found in
his home freezer - and he pledges to do that at the appropriate
• time But the FBI also needs to explain what was so unique in
the Jefferson case that caused it to raid his office - other than
the fact that he is Black.
‘You look at every motive there could possibly be. Of course,
when you’re an Afiican-American in elective office, you look to
see whether that might be a motive. I don’t have any evidence
of that. But, I can tell you that you have to look at everything,”
Jefferson says in an exclusive interview with the NNPA News
Service. ‘We’re tryir^ to see what the reasons are and we’re
investigating very carefully why it happened to me. But we can’t
put our finger on it; at least not without factual evidence until
we can say to you with reasonable certainty this is why this was
done.”
Jefferson has been advised by attorneys to remain silent on
the facts of the case, including the cash found in his home freez
er in Washington during an FBI raid on Aug. 3. FBI documents
allege the money came from a briefcase with $100,000 in
marked $100 bills that he had recrived as a bribe fixim a coop
erating witness. The FBI says it videotaped the transaction.
The clash between executive and legislative powers has
prompted Repubhcans to speak out against the FBI Capitol HiU
raid,, not because of any affinity for Jefferson, but on constitu
tional principles.
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