It looks like former congressman William Jefferson will spend a lot of time in jail, after the Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear his appeal of his 2009 bribery conviction.

Federal investigators famously found $90,000 in the freezer at Jefferson's home, but he wasn't charged with poor currency maintenance. Instead, the Louisiana Democrat was convicted on 10 counts of bribery, receiving payments to himself and family members for helping companies do business in Africa.The Times-Picayune has a nice summary of the charges here.

Jefferson was sentenced to 13 years in prison but appealed on the grounds that the government had stretched the bounds of the bribery statute. The Supreme Court Monday refused to hear the case.

Jefferson, who served nine terms in the House, began serving his sentence in May.

The Jefferson case was also marked by the FBI raid of his Capitol Hill office, the first time the Justice Department had ever raided a congressional office. That search was ultimately deemed unconstitutional by an appeals court, and the Supreme Court let that ruling stand.