Willie On Ice

Glad to see justice finally won out:

A former Louisiana congressman who famously stashed cash in his freezer was sentenced Friday to thirteen years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands in bribes in exchange for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa.

The sentence handed down in suburban Washington was far less than the nearly thirty years prosecutors had sought for William Jefferson, a Democrat who represented parts of New Orleans for nearly twenty years. ...

Prosecutors had asked a judge to follow federal guidelines and sentence him to at least twenty-seven years. The defense asked for fewer than ten years, arguing a stiffer sentence would be far longer than those imposed on congressmen convicted of similar crimes in recent years, none of whom was sentenced to more than a decade.

Good thing IceBox Willie was defeated in his last re-election bid. The Democrats would probably still have him as chairman of two or three committees, including the ethics committee. Heaven knows he epitomizes their definition of ethics.