A two-year Senate investigation into foreign corruption has shed new light on two key players in one of Washington’s most infamous scandals of recent years — Atiku Abubakar and his wife, Jennifer Douglas Abubakar.

Abubakar is the former Nigerian vice president who former Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) was planning to bribe with $100,000 provided to him by an FBI informant, Lori Mody. Mody, a wealthy businesswoman, gave the money to Jefferson in a parking lot in July 2005, a transaction secretly videotaped by the FBI. When federal agents raided Jefferson’s home in Virginia two days later, they found $90,000 in his freezer.

An undercover FBI special agent had driven Jefferson and Mody to Douglas' home in Potomac, Md., to meet with Abubakar just weeks before Mody gave Jefferson the money, according to legal documents filed by prosecutors. Abubakar was reportedly seeking as much $500,000 to help a company that Jefferson had a secret stake in win a lucrative Nigerian telecom contract.

A federal investigation of Jefferson’s activities revealed a wide-ranging corruption scheme, and following a lengthy legal fight, the Louisiana Democrat was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison, the harshest punishment ever handed out to an ex-lawmaker. Neither Douglas nor Abubakar has been charged with any wrongdoing.

However, the Senate investigation alleges that Douglas and Abubakar brought “over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States” from 2000 to 2008 — a prime example, according to investigators, of the ease with which so-called politically exposed persons, foreign officials and their family members, friends and business associates, can move money into U.S. financial institutions without explaining where the money came from.

The investigation also “substantiated” a $2 million-plus transfer from Siemens AG, a German electronics company, into a bank account controlled by Douglas. Siemens pleaded guilty in Dec. 2008 to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and paid $1.6 billion in civil and criminal penalties.

Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, want Congress and the Obama administration to tighten restrictions on moving money into the U.S., and new report is designed to build support for such a move.

Jefferson’s lawyers unsuccessfully sought to depose Abubakar and Douglas, as well another Nigerian businessman, as witnesses for the Louisiana Democrat’s trial, but they refused to return to the United States to be deposed or testify in the case.

With tens of millions of dollars from shadowy offshore companies at her disposal, Douglas — Abubakar’s fourth wife — lived a lavish lifestyle in the U.S., according to the report. Her personal expenses sometimes ran to as high as $90,000 per month.

https://www.politico.com/story/2010/02/report-revisits-jefferson-scandal-032593

APC zombies again

Atiku , the fugitive

This is the thief that LiePOB wants to foist on us.
Not on my watch..

our presidential candidate....a criminal case study in anoda country......#chai

Atiku should respect himself before OBJ stylishly push him into the US