By Allan Lengel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 12, 2006; Page A05A former aide to Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) pleaded guilty yesterday to bribing the congressman to promote high-tech business ventures in Africa.
Brett M. Pfeffer, 37, of Herndon, a former president of a McLean investment firm, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Alexandria to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official and aiding and abetting the bribery of a public official in 2004 and 2005.
Although this has absolutely nothing to do with the lobbyist scandal going on with the GOP, they’ll conflate it and say it isn’t a GOP problem, it’s just a few bad eggs in both parties. Yeah, OK. Wonder what the odds were that the Dem they’d catch up with would be from Louisiana? LOL As far as I know, in Jefferson Parish, they make fun of any politician who doesn’t get rich in office and think he’s a fool and refuse to vote for him. Where’s James Carville when you need him?