William Jefferson (D-LA) was officially indicted today on numerous counts. According to AP:

U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-Louisiana, was indicted Monday on federal charges of racketeering, soliciting bribes and money-laundering in a long-running bribery investigation into business deals he tried to broker in Africa.

The indictment handed up Monday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, is 94 pages long and lists 16 alleged violations of federal law that could keep Jefferson in prison for up to 235 years, according to a Justice Department official who has seen the document.

Jefferson, of course, is the man who was found with $90,000 in cold, hard, marked bills in his freezer. He was barely re-elected last November and, although the speaker of the House tried to place him on important committees, she was rebuffed.

You may recall that the Dems were going to be big on ethics issues. It seems that is not to be the case and this is just the tip of the iceberg. They're getting shadier with earmarks so that the public is kept in the dark, high-profile leaders of the party are in a new scandal weekly and Nancy Pelosi (who has her own ethics issues it seems) has not pushed through any successful ethics legislation, a cornerstone of what the donks ran on.

I guess we shouldn't expect much on the ethics side when one of the most outspoken and respected members of the Democrat party is Rep. John Murtha who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Abscam scandal and two senior senators -- Edward Kennedy and Robert Byrd -- were involved in their own shady issues at one time or another.