http://www.AlumniUnit.com News & Happenings for HBCU Alumni & Friends...The Nation's Largest Consortium of HBCU Alumni Social Networks & Blog Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:12:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.AlumniUnit.com/2009/11/16/former-u-s-rep-william-jefferson-sentenced-to-13-years-in-prison/ http://www.AlumniUnit.com/2009/11/16/former-u-s-rep-william-jefferson-sentenced-to-13-years-in-prison/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:09 +0000 AlumniUnit http://AlumniUnit.com/?p=3923 Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, the first African-American elected to Congress from Louisiana since Reconstruction, was sentenced on Nov. 13 to 13 years in prison on charges of corruption. District Judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandria, Va. handed down a sentence that was a little mo... Read more...]]> http://www.AlumniUnit.com/2009/11/16/former-u-s-rep-william-jefferson-sentenced-to-13-years-in-prison/feed/ 0