William Jefferson and his wife Andrea enter the U.S. District Courthouse in Alexandria, Va., where the jury that convicted Jefferson decided Thursday that he should forfeit more than $470,000 in ...

Former U.S. Representative William Jefferson, surrounded by his family and attorneys, including Robert Trout (R), leave the United States District Courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia after the jury ...

William Jefferson, the former Democratic congressman convicted of 11 of 16 counts of corruption, can be held liable to forfeit more than $470,000 in bribe money paid to sham companies under his family ...

A federal jury has convicted William Jefferson, the former congressman from New Orleans, of accepting bribes. Jefferson became infamous and a national punchline after the Federal Bureau of ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A federal jury in Virginia failed to reach a verdict Tuesday in the corruption trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La. The panel ended its fourth day of ...

WASHINGTON – Rep. William Jefferson accused the Justice Department of bringing corruption charges against him in Virginia to reduce the chance of drawing black jurors. Jefferson, a Louisiana ...

The federal jury that found former Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson guilty of bribery and racketeering convicted him on 11 of 16 charges — a less-than-complete victory for a Justice Department ...

The jury saw videotape of Mody handing over a suitcase filled with $100,000 cash outside an Arlington hotel. On the tape, Mody asks Jefferson if he would like to “take a peek” at the suitcase ...

Rep. William Jefferson accused the Justice Department of bringing corruption charges against him in Virginia to reduce the chance of drawing black jurors. Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat who has ...

Well, sure there was key testimony from an FBI agent in the case. But at the end of the day, the jury got to see America’s most famous freezer: William Jefferson’s. The one where FBI agents found ...