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| | Ethics woes cast shadow on elections - The Boston Globe |
 | | WASHINGTON -- The dramatic FBI raid over the weekend at the office of Representative William Jefferson, Democrat of Louisiana, highlights the fact that major ethics problems are dogging members of both parties, political observers said yesterday, and complicates the Democrats' plan to make Republican corruption a nationwide issue in this fall's congressional races. |
 | | The two investigations -- with made-for-the-movies details like the freezer stuffed with cash that agents allegedly found in Jefferson's home and hidden-camera images of an informant handing over a six-figure payoff -- are overshadowing, at least for now, other allegations of Republican wrongdoing that Democrats hoped would help them win control of Congress. |
 | | Representative Bob Ney, Republican of Ohio, has been linked to the Abramoff case, and the Cunningham bribery probe, which authorities say hasn't ended, could involve House Appropriations Committee chairman Jerry Lewis, Republican of California, among others. |
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