>And when Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy returned to the courtroom, she turned directly to Ms. Kane with a stern warning, her words slicing through the silence.
>“There is to be absolutely no retaliation of any kind against any witness in this case, either by your own devices, from your own mouth or your hand, or directing anybody to do anything,” the judge said. She threatened Ms. Kane, who is currently free on bail, with immediate incarceration if she failed to comply.
> "Prosecutors also charged the congressman in a bribery scheme involving Herbert Vederman, one of Fattah's most prolific fund-raisers and a Rendell-era deputy mayor. Through cash payments to the congressman's children, college tuition payments for his au pair and $18,000 given to help purchase a vacation home in the Poconos, Vederman bought Fattah's support in seeking appointment by the Obama White House to an ambassadorship, government witnesses alleged. He, too, was charged in the case and convicted of racketeering conspiracy."
>In addition to Fattah and Vederman, three other people were found guilty of various charges in connection with the schemes.
>"This is an extraordinarily difficult day for me and my family," the congressman said in a statement. "A jury has decided that based on the evidence presented to them that I am guilty of charges presented by the government. Today's decision notwithstanding, it has been my privilege to serve the constituents of the Second Congressional District for over 20 years."
Asher Ortiz
Hopefully this starts a chain reaction.
Blake Evans
More demokike descruction:
>Chaka Fattah (born Arthur Davenport; November 21, 1956) is the former U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district, serving from 1995 until his resignation in 2016. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the Pennsylvania Senate and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
>On July 29, 2015, Fattah and a group of associates were indicted on federal charges related to their alleged roles in a racketeering and influence peddling conspiracy.[2][3] He later lost the 2016 Democratic primary as well. He was convicted on 23 counts of racketeering, fraud, and other corruption charges on June 21, 2016 and resigned two days later.[4]
>On June 21, 2016, Fattah was convicted of all charges, including racketeering conspiracy, bribery, bank fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, making false statements to a financial institution, and falsification of records, with sentencing scheduled for October 4
In case anyone doesn't know about former Governor Rod Blagojevich, here's the relevant information en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich_corruption_charges#Blagojevich.27s_defense >Rod Blagojevich, former Governor of Illinois, is an American politician. He and his Chief of Staff John Harris were charged with corruption by federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. As a result, Blagojevich was impeached by the Illinois General Assembly and removed from office by the Illinois Senate in January 2009. The federal investigation continued after his removal from office and he was indicted on corruption charges in April 2009.[3] The jury found him guilty of one charge of making false statements with a mistrial being declared on the other 23 counts due to a hung jury after 14 days of jury deliberation.[4] On June 27, 2011, after a retrial, Blagojevich was found guilty of 17 charges (including wire fraud, attempted extortion, and conspiracy to solicit bribes), not guilty on one charge and the jury deadlocked after 10 days of deliberation on the two remaining charges.[5][6] On December 7, 2011, Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
This dude made a huge media circus out of all of this and really thought he was going to get away with it.
Parker Brown
>Under the direction of US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald,[100] Governor Blagojevich was arrested at his home by federal agents and charged with corruption. The Justice Department complaint alleged that the governor conspired to commit several "pay to play" schemes, including attempting "to obtain personal gain ... through the corrupt use" of his authority to fill Barack Obama's vacated United States Senate seat (as stated, the vacancy was due to Obama's resignation, following election to presidency), claiming that in wiretapped recordings Blagojevich discussed his desire to get something in exchange for an appointment to the seat. After various outreach efforts, he appointed former state attorney general Roland Burris on New Year's Eve 2008. Burris was seated after some initial opposition in mid-January 2009.[101] A trial was set for June 3, 2010[102] and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald spoke out on the charges,[103] characterizing Blagojevich's actions as trying to auction the open seat off to "the highest bidder".
>On January 27, 2009, Blagojevich began a media campaign planned by publicist Glenn Selig, founder of the crisis management public relations firm The Publicity Agency. During the two-day campaign, he visited Today, Good Morning America, The Early Show, The View, multiple programs on Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC where he proclaimed his innocence and insisted he would be vindicated.
Camden Taylor
How the fuck have people let Hilary get away with what she has done, when this "nobody" has been convicted.
Aaron Foster
It's because Hillary IS the machine at this point, taking her down is going to expose all the other worms hiding in the woodwork. It might actually put the government at a standstill as Americans realize the extent of the corruption present.
Parker Cooper
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Levi Ramirez
Cut down the pawns and bishops before you take out the queen
Asher Robinson
Terry Spicer was a democrat in Alabama's State Legislature.
And people got up in arms against Trumps comments on the second amendment.
She is a prime example of tyranny.
Angel Stewart
has anyone done any kind of analysis on democrat vs republican corruption?
Nathan Anderson
The biggest trend I've observed is that if a state is majority D, the convictions will mostly be Dems, and tif it's mostly GOP, then most convictions will be Republicans. However, I've only been looking at the last few years.
