NEW ORLEANS, June 21 (UPI) -- Three relatives of indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., have pleaded innocent to charges they ripped off three charities they founded.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 13 (UPI) -- The federal corruption case of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., will begin Dec. 2, a judge announced Friday.
NEW ORLEANS, June 5 (UPI) -- Another relative of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, a sister, has been indicted in Louisiana on federal corruption charges.
NEW ORLEANS, June 21 (UPI) -- A former New Orleans school official pleaded guilty to accepting $140,000 in bribes from a political operative thought to be the brother of a U.S. congressman.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 8 (UPI) -- Rep. William J. Jefferson, D-La., pleaded innocent Friday to bribery, racketeering and money-laundering charges in Virginia.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., who gained notoriety after the FBI found $90,000 in his freezer, was elected Saturday to a ninth term in Congress.
WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Washington Monday ruled that an unprecedented FBI search of a congressman's office on Capitol Hill was constitutional.
WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- The Louisiana congressman tangled in a bribery investigation allegedly says on a newly unsealed tape that the vice president of Nigeria wanted a payoff.
WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- Newly unsealed court documents from the corruption investigation of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., show the FBI used phone taps and a "wired" witness.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Houses owned by Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., have been searched by federal agents carrying out warrants related to "an ongoing criminal investigation."
