Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
June 5, 2007
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Washington Post
A Louisville man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to bribing Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) with more than $400,000 in payments, company stock and a share of the profits to promote the Kentucky firm's high-tech business ventures in Africa.
Vernon L. Jackson, 53, owner of Louisville-based iGate Inc., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bribe and bribery in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. Federal sentencing guidelines call for a prison term of up to nine years for the crimes, which occurred from 2001 to 2005.
Capital Eye
The Kentucky technology executive who has admitted bribing Louisiana Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) also made apparently legal political contributions to him and two congresswomen from California, sisters Loretta and Linda Sanchez.
Analyzing campaign finance records, the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics found that iGate, Inc. CEO Vernon L. Jackson and his wife, Sandra, contributed $26,000 to the three Democrats in 2001 and 2003.
Jefferson, who is all but named as “Representative A” in Jackson’s May 3 guilty plea, received $11,000 from the couple. Rep. Loretta Sanchez received $12,000 from the Jacksons for her re-election campaigns, and they gave $4,000 to elect her sister, Linda, to the House of Representatives. (The Jacksons gave both Sanchez sisters an additional $4,000 in contributions, but the campaigns returned the money.)
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