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Police: Pennsylvania Woman Peed in Store Freezer
By David Lohr - AOL NewsMEADVILLE, Pa. -- There are just some things you shouldn't do on a date. A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief for urinating inside a convenience store's freezer and spoiling hundreds of dollars worth of food, police said. The bizarre incident occurred around 4 a.m. Saturday at the Country Fair convenience store in Meadville, about 90 miles north of Pittsburgh. Police said Carrie Ann Harkness, 23, of Meadville, climbed into one of the store's walk-in freezers and became upset when employees asked her to get out. "The incident occurred as the ...
Ex-Congressman William Jefferson Sentenced To 13 Years In Prison
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyWilliam Jefferson, the former congressman from Louisiana caught with $90,000 cash stuffed in his freezer, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for using his office to solicit bribes. Jefferson, 62, was sentenced Friday in Virginia, three months after a federal jury found him guilty on 11 of 16 counts, including bribery and racketeering. Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence him to at least 27 years, the Associated Press reported. Jefferson was convicted of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars, and soliciting millions more, to broker business deals in Africa. Prosecutors claimed ...
William Jefferson Convicted in Cash-in-Freezer Case
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyDuring his many years in Congress, William Jefferson accumulated power the quiet way. He walled himself off from the garish self-promotion that defines so many of his colleagues. Now, barring a successful appeal of his corruption conviction, he faces years behind the walls of prison. Jefferson has been found guilty by an Alexandria, Va., jury of 11 counts, including soliciting and accepting bribes and using his official position to further a criminal enterprise. It was all connected to favors he granted in pursuit of African business ventures. The case had various bizarre twists and turns over ...
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