FBI Says Ex-NY University Official Forced Students to Perform Chores For Scholarships

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now it’s the feds turn to teach Cecilia Chang, former vice president and dean of a New York university, a big lesson. Federal authorities in New York on Wednesday indicted the former St. John’s University official for allegedly threatening to revoke scholarships if students failed to carry out certain tasks like…

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Jurors in Ex-Cong. William Jefferson Said Mundane Documents — Not $90,000 in FBI Money or FBI Tapes — Convinced Them to Convict

Jefferson stands next to attorney Robert Trout during sentencing last November /Sketch by Art Lien/NBC News By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rep.William Jefferson was hardly a household name — that is until FBI agents found $90,000 in his freezer at his Capitol Hill home on Aug. 3, 2005. In the public’s eye, that seemed to be…

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