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To: JBTFD who wrote (8714)	10/7/2006 7:33:33 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Timing in case against Jefferson tricky Election may affect when feds tip hand Sunday, September 24, 2006 By Bruce Alpert nola.com WASHINGTON -- With the selection last week of a technology expert to copy documents from computer hard drives taken from Rep. William Jefferson's office, the Justice Department might soon have the material it says it needs to wrap up its 18-month investigation of the New Orleans Democrat. That could leave the agency with a dilemma: Should the department decide whether to seek an indictment of Jefferson before the Nov. 7 primary or wait until after the race is decided? SNIP "The policy is that you should bring an indictment when you have the evidence and when you are ready to proceed without consideration for an election," said Eric Holder, who headed the department's public integrity section during the Clinton administration. A current Justice Department official, who asked not to be identified because he feared his "general remarks about process" might seem aimed at the Jefferson probe, said an election could be one of many factors considered. But he said it is a relatively minor one and is even less important in a case where the public is already aware that the elected official is the target of a probe. SNIP In the past, the Justice Department has indicted elected officials right before and right after elections. Either way, the timing has generated criticism. Indictments just after an election have been criticized for not giving voters information they needed to evaluate the candidate up for re-election. Indictments just prior to an election have been attacked as attempts to snuff out the official's re-election chances. (Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ....

To: JBTFD who wrote (8714)	10/8/2006 8:15:53 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Testimony links firm to William Jefferson D-La probe NOLA ^ \| 10/08/06 \| Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh nola.com In papers filed with the FBI, Suleiman YahYah, a Nigerian businessman listed as a target in the ongoing probe of Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, said that one of the 2004 meetings he attended with Jefferson and iGate Inc. CEO Vernon Jackson, occurred in the Washington offices of Worldspace Inc., an international satellite radio provider. YahYah's statement is the first to provide any kind of link between iGate and Worldspace, whose CEO, Noah Samara, said in a June filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that he turned over documents and gave testimony to the Virginia grand jury investigating Jefferson. Samara loaned Jefferson $50,001 to $100,000, according to Jefferson's 2006 campaign disclosure report. Jefferson, who has not been charged, denies any wrongdoing. Jackson was recently sentenced to seven years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to providing $400,000 to a firm controlled by Jefferson's family in return for the congressman's help winning telecommunications contracts in Nigeria and Ghana. In secretly recorded conversations between Jefferson and Lori Mody, a cooperating federal witness, Jefferson said YahYah has "a lot of folks to pay off" to get the iGate contracts approved. YahYah has denied paying or accepting bribes... (Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ....