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Last Updated: Jun 27, 2009 - 9:51:49 AM |
Dumebi Kachikwu said his involvement in a Kentucky telecommunications
firm Jefferson was backing left him so broke he was unable to pay his
wife's college fees, The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Friday.
Kachikwu said he decided to cooperate with an FBI investigation of the
former Democratic Louisiana congressmen because he "wanted some form of
justice."
Jefferson has pleaded innocent to charges he used his congressional
influence and office to push African projects in return for payments to
himself or family members.
Kachikwu, a former part owner of Nigeria Digital Television, said he
learned in May 2004 that Nigerian authorities were preparing to arrest
the visiting congressman.
He said he alerted Jefferson so he could leave the country earlier than
planned, avoiding arrest.
Jefferson is on trial in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia
Source:Ocnus.net 2009
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