MCLEAN, Va. — Federal prosecutors and lawyers for a former Louisiana congressman who famously hid $90,000 in his freezer are working on an agreement for his resentencing on corruption charges, according to court documents filed in the case. Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, a nine-term Democratic congressman from New Orleans, was convicted in 2009 of accepting more than $400,000 in bribes in exchange for brokering business deals in Africa. In court documents filed during the past week, prosecutors and Jefferson’s attorneys said they are negotiating an agreement to make a joint recommendation on Jefferson’s new sentence. Ellis III said Jefferson, now 70, should get a new sentencing hearing because the U.S. Supreme Court has changed what constitutes an “official act” for which a public official can be convicted of bribery. The ruling came in 2016, when the Supreme Court threw out corruption convictions against former Virginia Gov.

Source: National Post November 29, 2017 00:00 UTC