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NEW ORLEANS — Voters in Louisiana have ousted indicted Democratic Rep. William Jefferson and sent a little- known Republican to Congress.
Unofficial results showed Republican lawyer Anh “Joseph” Cao, denying Jefferson a 10th term.
Republicans made an aggressive push to get rid of the 61-year-old incumbent, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of bribery, laundering money and misusing his congressional office.
Cao won in a predominantly black and heavily Democratic district that covers most of New Orleans. He will become the first Vietnamese-American in Congress.
He came to the U.S. as a child after the fall of Saigon in 1975.
