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The Leonard Lopate Show

The Convict and the Congressman: A Major Scandal

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

When the FBI searched the home of Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson in 2005, they found tens of thousands of dollars in his freezer. We look into where the money came from, and how far the related corruption scandal spread. Andrew Rice’s article about the scandal in the November issue of Conde Nast Portfolio is called “The Convict and the Congressman.”

Read Andrew Rice’s article


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