{"id":502,"date":"2009-06-08T09:51:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2009-06-08T09:51:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T13:51:28","slug":"democrat-william-cold-cash-jefferson-going-to-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/democrat-william-cold-cash-jefferson-going-to-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"democrat William &#8220;Cold Cash&#8221; Jefferson going to trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You remember <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipseweb.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/William%20\"Cold%20Cash\"%20Jefferson\">William &#8220;Cold Cash&#8221; Jefferson<\/a>, the Louisiana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/polyticks\/democrats.html\">democrat<\/a> congressman whom the FBI found $90,000, in cash, in his freezer. This is after a an informant told the FBI that he had given Jefferson $100,000, in cash, as a bribe. That was four years ago. Jefferson kept his office, with the support of Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the congressional democrat &#8220;leadership&#8221;, until he was finally <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipseweb.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/in-good-news-department.html\">voted out of office by the good people of Louisiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2009\/06\/oftdelayed_trial_of_william_je.html\">According the New Orleans Metro News<\/a>, &#8220;Cold Cash&#8221; Jefferson is finally going to face trial, &#8220;facing 16 federal bribery and public corruption charges.&#8221; If convicted, the former democrat congressman could face up to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2009\/06\/08\/culture-of-corruption-all-in-the-jefferson-family\/\">HT to Ms. Malkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You remember William &#8220;Cold Cash&#8221; Jefferson, the Louisiana democrat congressman whom the FBI found $90,000, in cash, in his freezer. This is after a an informant told the FBI that he had given Jefferson $100,000, in cash, as a bribe. That was four years ago. Jefferson kept his office, with the support of Nancy Pelosi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[43,19],"tags":[251,262,621],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-of-corruption-politics","category-politics","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-86","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}