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Ex-school official [N.O.] admits bribes [from older brother of Rep. Jefferson]
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jun 20, 2007 11:11am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, June 20, 2007 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former Orleans Parish School Board president and self-styled corruption fighter Ellenese Brooks-Simms will plead guilty in federal court today to charges that she accepted more than $100,000 in bribes from Mose Jefferson -- the eldest brother of indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson -- in exchange for supporting a multi-million dollar math curriculum contract, according to sources close to the case.
Brooks-Simms, 67, will be charged in a bill of information to be filed by U.S. Attorney Jim Letten's office and will cooperate in the probe, her lawyer, Ralph Capitelli, confirmed.
Brooks-Simms "has agreed to cooperate fully with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office to see that justice is done in connection with this matter and that everyone involved in this wrongdoing is disclosed," Capitelli said Tuesday. "It's rare, especially in these times, for an elected official who has done something wrong to simply admit that wrongdoing and be willing to accept the consequences,"
Court documents slated to be filed today will implicate an unnamed businessman as the source of the bribe money in the scheme to land a contract for a local firm that developed a computer-based system to teach math to at-risk students, sources said.
Sources familiar with the case say that businessman is Mose Jefferson, the congressman's brother and chief political strategist, and the firm is JRL Enterprises, which markets the "I CAN Learn" curriculum. The firm paid Mose Jefferson a lobbying fee of at least $500,000, the sources said. Mose Jefferson will not be charged today, the sources said.. |
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