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KyJim:
If memory serves, it doesn't always, note the following:
1. It was the FBI that searched the congressman's office, finding $90,000 or so in a refer.
2. I believe the congressman, from Louisiana, went to jail.
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The cash was found in his refer at home, hence the nickname "Cold Cash" Jefferson. It was FBI and what they found in the office helped send the...gentleman...to jail.
Unlike Alcee Hastings, the law is such that Jefferson cannot run for another office due to a felony conviction. Hastings, a current member of Congress, was convicted of bribery while a judge...a federal judge, IIRC, but maybe just a state jurist. He was defrocked, but ran for Congress and was elected. He might be more useful to his sponsors in Congress than on the bench, but I speculate.
Not sure about Jefferson's whereabouts these days.