Lawless Lawmakers By By Ralph R. Reiland

Do a quick Google search of "Jefferson," for instance, and you go from the principal author of the Declaration of Independence -- a man of the Enlightenment who played a crucial role in shaping the U.S. Constitution -- to a Louisiana congressman with $90,000 in cash in his freezer, efficiently wrapped in aluminum foil in $10,000 increments and stuffed inside frozen-food packages.

The latter "public servant," Rep. William Jennings Jefferson, still in office and still not admitting that he did anything wrong, was videotaped by the FBI taking $100,000 out of an FBI informant's car on July 30, 2005, at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Arlington, Virginia.

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