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Monday will mark Day 12 of the corruption trial of former Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans.

Prosecutors are playing audiotapes of former Louisiana congressman William Jefferson talking with a woman about business deals he is accused of brokering in exchange for bribes.

In a secretly recorded conversation played for the jury in the bribery trial of former U.S. Rep.

For one column, I turn Dem-o-crat. I know it is difficult to accept, but I'm going to sit with Gary Horton at the Koffee Klatch and kibitz about another failed Republican.

Prosecutors called five witnesses Friday they hope convinced jurors that former Rep.

A federal judge has refused to throw out bribery charges against the brother of a former Louisiana congressman.

Good old fashioned sex scandals are nothing new in Washington, D.C. Nor is Senator John Ensign the first to make a Mea Culpa speech to a caucus meeting.

I think it's just automatic now. When a high-profile Republican gets into trouble, Fox News steps in to mislead their sheep viewers by labeling them as Democrats.

Information compiled from the Washington Post, 'Congressional Sex Scandals in History,' and other sources.

William Jefferson, a Democrat who represented parts of New Orleans, is on trial accused of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.

His lawyers say former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson , D-La., won't get a fair trial on corruption charges unless he is allowed to use excerpts from an FBI tape.

It's the beginning of the legal end, so to speak, as attorneys on both sides of the William Jefferson trial prepare to make their opening statements Tuesday in the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia.

A change of target? --- Robert Trout, the lead attorney for former Rep. William Jefferson, says that when Virginia businesswoman Lori Mody went to the FBI in March 2005 to complain that she may have been the victim of fraud, her complaint wasn't about Jefferson but about iGate CEO Vernon Jackson and Brett Pfeffer, her $700,000-a-year financial ...

A Kentucky businessman testified Wednesday he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in "consulting fees" to the wife of a former Louisiana congressman that were nothing but thinly veiled bribes.

A leader of the effort to recall a New Orleans congressman who voted against President Barack Obama's stimulus package says the petition drive has been hampered by publicity about a state attorney general's opinion, which says members of Congress cannot be recalled.

Opening arguments for the trial of former Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson commenced June 16, 2009 at the Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A witness in the bribery trial of a former Louisiana congressman says he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the congressman's wife in bribes described as "consulting fees." William Jefferson is on trial in federal court in Virginia and accused of taking bribes and other crimes.

A former Louisiana congressman's brother charged in a racketeering conspiracy case is fighting to keep his lawyer and preserve an Aug.

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Opening statements are scheduled in the trial of a former Louisiana congressman charged with bribery after federal agents found $90,000 in cash in his freezer.