Rep. William Jefferson appears to be willing to go to all ends of the earth to track down witnesses for his case. That’s what it may take.
By Bruce Alpert
New Orleans Times-Picayune
WASHINGTON — Attorneys for outgoing Rep. William Jefferson on Wednesday asked the judge in his bribery case for permission to use e-mail to help hunt down a key witness: one of the four wives of a former Nigerian vice president.
In the latest strange development in the Jefferson case, his attorneys said in a brief that they have been unable to deliver subpoenas to Jennifer Douglas Abubakar at her Potomac, Md., home or at her residence in Nigeria. Jennifer Abubakar in 2005 was listed as one of four wives to Nigeria’s then-vice president, Atiku Abubakar.
Jefferson’s attorneys said they have been told she is now “primarily based” in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, although they haven’t gotten a specific address. Nor has there been any explanation about why she’s living in Dubai.
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