Dem. Rep. William Jefferson

[jyro]

Pelosi removed Jefferson from the Ways & Means Committee,
Nancy Pelosi said, "We pledge to make this the most honest, ethical, and open Congress in history,"

Feb 16, 2007
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), after stating, "I will not allow Jefferson to return to the committee until he has been cleared of all bribery charges",
has decided to put him on the Homeland Security panel. If confirmed he will be have access to our nation's top intelligence secrets, plots here in the country, overseas, people under suspicion and will help make policy for national defense.

Jefferson is often described on capitol hill as “the Congressman from Chevron.”

Jefferson has attracted controversy over the years. Nicknamed "Dollar Bill" in New Orleans.

Rep. Jefferson has been the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation by the federal government since approximately March 2005. In August 2005, federal agents searched his home in New Orleans and his home and car in Washington, D.C., as well as the home and office of his campaign accountant in New Orleans after Rep. Jefferson was videotaped accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from Lori Mody, a Northern Virginia investor and former technology executive who was wearing an FBI wire. During the raid on Rep. Jefferson’s home, FBI agents found $90,000 in cash in $10,000 increments wrapped in foil in the Congressman’s freezer.

The 83-page search warrant affidavit released on May 21, 2006, described Rep. Jefferson as a man who solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, discussed payoffs with African officials, had a history of involvement in numerous bribery schemes and used his family to hide his interest in high-tech business ventures he promoted in Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria.

In January 2006, one of Rep. Jefferson’s former aides, Brett M. Pfeffer, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official and aiding and abetting the bribery of a public official and in May 2006, Vernon L. Jackson, the CEO of iGate, pleaded guilty to paying more than $400,000 in bribes to the family of Rep. Jefferson. Rep. Jefferson is very likely to find himself soon charged with bribery, honest services fraud and conspiracy. He has also violated numerous House rules.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/21/jefferson.search/index.html

[Mustangman_2000]

wow...first she bans smoking on the house floor and now she's kicking democrats out of committee's.

[That_Is_My_El_Camino]

The only difference between this guy and most other politicians is that he's dumb enough to get caught...

[jyro]

she appointed him to a more powerful position.

[Mustangman_2000]

she appointed him to a more powerful position.

the guy is a scumbag, but he still has to be formerly approved by the house.

this isn't set in stone. she may not be able to push this through with all the flack this story has drawn.

he absolutely does not be any part of homeland security with his track record.

IRONY....nancy pelosi was the one of the first people to ask for his resignation last summer after the fbi search of his home. and now i guess the political pressure from the black caucus foundation to not ostracize jefferson is breaking her back. sad.

[Slowhand]

and it's completely fine for her to use government funding to fly her back to california for a non-gov't related trip...

air force 3...haha.

[Walsted]

and it's completely fine for her to use government funding to fly her back to california for a non-gov't related trip...

air force 3...haha.

I believe all recent Speakers of the House have had government transportation, due to security issues concerning #3 in line for the Presidency.

[...takes time out to shudder at the thought of President Pelosi...]

The big flap in the past with her travel involved one of her staff members request to use the military version of the 757 instead of the customary military version of the 737, citing the need to fly direct from DC to CA. I kind of wonder where that staffer got their info, though, as the 737 is coast to coast capable. NAS JRB Fort Worth has coast-to-coast capable military 737s on station.

[Trip McNeely]

Fuck that bitch, her AND Feinstein. That is all.

[Vertnut]

Good times...

[jyro]

Fuck that bitch, her AND Feinstein. That is all.


" SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.

As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.

The MILCON subcommittee is not only in charge of supervising military construction, it also oversees "quality of life" issues for veterans, which includes building housing for military families and operating hospitals and clinics for wounded soldiers. Perhaps Feinstein is trying to disassociate herself from MILCON's incredible failure to provide decent medical care for wounded soldiers.

While leading MILCON, Feinstein had ample warning of the medical-care meltdown. But she was not proactive on veteran's affairs. "


http://www.metroactive.com/metro/03.21.07/dianne-feinstein-resigns-0712.html

[Trip McNeely]

" SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.

As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.

The MILCON subcommittee is not only in charge of supervising military construction, it also oversees "quality of life" issues for veterans, which includes building housing for military families and operating hospitals and clinics for wounded soldiers. Perhaps Feinstein is trying to disassociate herself from MILCON's incredible failure to provide decent medical care for wounded soldiers.

While leading MILCON, Feinstein had ample warning of the medical-care meltdown. But she was not proactive on veteran's affairs. "


http://www.metroactive.com/metro/03.21.07/dianne-feinstein-resigns-0712.html

Good riddance! lol nice find. :)

[Paladin]

the guy is a scumbag, but he still has to be formerly approved by the house.

this isn't set in stone. she may not be able to push this through with all the flack this story has drawn.

he absolutely does not be any part of homeland security with his track record.

IRONY....nancy pelosi was the one of the first people to ask for his resignation last summer after the fbi search of his home. and now i guess the political pressure from the black caucus foundation to not ostracize jefferson is breaking her back. sad.

You are unbelievable man. You still ignore the obvious issue, she is a hypocrite. You act like this is no big deal when you tried to say the election of the Dems was more about character than it was about Iraq. I guess after the election the character can go out the window, right? Why is it that you can see, I can see, and others can see that this guy doesn't need to be part of Homeland security, but a woman you helped get into office can't see it? Maybe this will open up your eyes about your party, but I doubt it.

[Mustangman_2000]

You are unbelievable man. You still ignore the obvious issue, she is a hypocrite. You act like this is no big deal when you tried to say the election of the Dems was more about character than it was about Iraq. I guess after the election the character can go out the window, right? Why is it that you can see, I can see, and others can see that this guy doesn't need to be part of Homeland security, but a woman you helped get into office can't see it? Maybe this will open up your eyes about your party, but I doubt it.

i didn't say that it was not a big deal.

i think it sucks.

[Walsted]

" SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein...
Hmm... That's interesting. People complain about Cheney's ties to Haliburton, saying we shouldn't do business with one of the few companies capable of fulfilling the contract specifications due to Cheney's former relationship with that company, and yet we're doing business with companies headed by a guy who is married to the person in charge of their contracts, and who also drove Northwest Airlines into the ground like he was searching for oil via a leveraged buyout. Yes, I do believe it was appropriate for her to resign from that subcommittee. I wonder how much time elapsed between Blum's first military construction contract and her resignation? I also wonder what would happen if they looked in their books for the same imaginative billing attributed to Haliburton - with Blum's history at Northwest and the accounting methods in use under his reign, I would be suspicious of any company he controls.