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Thread #92887   Message #1781497
Posted By: Susu's Hubby
11-Jul-06 - 11:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Oh no!....Say it ain't so!!
Subject: RE: BS: Oh no!....Say it ain't so!!
The right thing to do or just prejudice againt anyone named William Jefferson?


Judge rules FBI raid on Hill office legal
By Jerry Seper and Christina Bellantoni
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 11, 2006


A federal judge in Washington yesterday said the FBI's search of Rep. William J. Jefferson's Capitol Hill offices in a bribery investigation -- which ignited a firestorm of protest in Congress -- was legal and denied efforts by defense attorneys to have the seized documents returned.
    U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Hogan, in a 28-page opinion, described the "facts and questions of law presented" by the May 20 weekend raid on the Louisiana Democrat's office as "indeed unprecedented," but said it was "well-established" that a member of Congress was as bound to criminal laws "as are ordinary persons."


Ordinary person? I thought he was a democrat?


Hubby