New Orleans area reelects congressman under probe
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U.S. Rep. William Jefferson won a  ninth term to Congress in a surprising landslide on Saturday as  loyal black voters shrugged off a federal bribery investigation  into $90,000 found in his freezer.
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A state judge ruled Monday that the sign-up period should be reopened for the Nov. 2 election in Louisiana's 5th Congressional District, where incumbent Rep. Rodney Alexander infuriated Democrats by switching to the Republican Party minutes before the qualifying deadline.
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Representative William J. Jefferson of Louisiana is expected to be indicted on corruption charges this afternoon.
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The House voted Friday to take away besieged Rep. William Jefferson&#039;s committee seat, then dispatched its own lawyers to join his in court to seek the return of documents seized in a federal bribery probe.
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Rep. William J. Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat indicted yesterday on federal bribery charges, gave up his only remaining House committee job today but said the action was not an admission of guilt in the case.
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Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) was given up for dead politically after the FBI found $90,000 in alleged bribe money in his freezer, and he barely survived a Nov. 7 primary election, garnering 30 percent of the vote in a crowded field of 12 challengers.
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The FBI&#039;s weekend search of the House office of a Louisiana Democrat under investigation for bribery may have overstepped Constitutional boundaries, House leaders said as the congressman under investigation pledged to stay in office.
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New Orleans area U.S. Rep. William Jefferson won a ninth term to Congress in a surprising landslide on Saturday as loyal black voters shrugged off a federal bribery investigation into $90,000 found in his freezer.
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A watchdog group asked the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate whether a congressman broke the law by not paying taxes and using his office's resources for campaign activities.
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A half dozen federal investigations into the activities of Republican lawmakers are raising new worries for GOP leaders who hope to regain the House majority they lost last fall.
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House Republican leaders mounted an effort to explain their own conduct after the resignation of Rep. Mark Foley and suggested there should be a criminal investigation of Foley's contacts with congressional pages. The scandal comes just weeks before the November 7 midterm elections, and Republicans were hurriedly trying to find someone to replace Foley.
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Indictments and corruption scandals can mean one member of Congress's demise but become another's bounty, with key vacancies created on prized committees when ethics probes force lawmakers to step aside.
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The House Republicans' campaign arm may be a victim of fraud by a former employee, and it has asked law enforcement officials to investigate "irregularities in our financial audit process."
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Republicans picked a party-backed state senator Thursday to replace embattled U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, who dropped out of the congressional race amid a corruption scandal.
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A New Orleans grand jury will decide if a doctor and two nurses intentionally killed patients with injections before the hospital was evacuated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Orleans Parish coroner Frank Minyard said Tuesday.
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BATON ROUGE, La.  - A Louisiana judge on Monday  ordered state officials to reopen the ballot in a U.S.  congressional race and allow new candidates to enter because of  a last minute party switch by the district's incumbent.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Carolyn Parrish, the maverick MP who gained notoriety for her outspoken anti-Americanism, has been turfed from the Liberal party caucus.