Friday, January 18, 2008

FBI agent to Jefferson: "Where Is My Goddamn Money?"


TPM:




From The Washington Post:
Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) testified yesterday that an FBI agent cursed at him and told him that "this is going to be the worst day of your life," just before agents searched his Louisiana home as part of the investigation that led to corruption charges against him.
At one point during the tense interview at his house in August 2005, Jefferson said, an FBI agent followed him to the bathroom. "I told him, 'Are you going to the bathroom with me?' " Jefferson said in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. "He said, 'Yes.' "
Minutes later, another agent informed Jefferson that $100,000 he had accepted from a government informant -- allegedly used to bribe the vice president of Nigeria -- had been supplied by the FBI. Leaning forward, the agent yelled, "Where is my [expletive] money?" Jefferson testified.

(The Hill helpfully
fills in the expletive.) Jefferson didn't reply, "in the freezer." Instead, he says, he refused to answer any more questions at that point.

1 comment:

airJackie said...

Why did Jefferson have 100,000 dollars in his freezer. He knows he had taken the money but now he wants to just talk about how he was treated. Where this men suppose to ask him for a cup of tea and the money. The man is guilty but is doing his best to change the subject. He knows he got caught and should just end this circus now.