Used from federal grant money for an educational seminar fatah never held. His long time Congressional District assistant the helped cover up the cashflow. Brandt took part in the alleged crimes. 29 counts in this indictment and some of those penalties are pretty hefty, with racketeering and bribery carrying each a maximum of 20 years in prison. Reporting live outside city hall deanna durante, nbc10 news. Congressman fatah was in washington when the indictment was announced today. Nbc10s keith jones is live now in our Digital Operations Center with more on what the congressman had to say today. Hes going to let his attorney handle this matter, he wants to continue to focus on helping his constituents. All i want to say is i spent my time helping people. Im going to spend my time helping millions more and im going to let my attorney its going to be important to my constituents that this not be a distraction in terms of my would, and im going to try not to have it be a distraction. This
Hes accused of using Campaign Money to pay his sons student loan debt. Nbc10 news anchor renee chenaultfattah is married to the congressman. The feds allege renees car is part of a scheme to help the fattahs finance a vacation home. Renee is not indicted. The public does not expect their elected officials to misuse Campaign Funds. Misappropriate government funds, accept bribes or commit bank fraud. These type of criminal acts betray the publics trust. Hes done nothing wrong, congressman fattah was at work in washington today. A court date will be set. Harry hairston joins us now. You spoke with the congressman when these allegations began to surface. You spoke with him today, he spoke today when the charges were announced . Yes, he did come out and speak today, thats right. For the past eight years, a cloud of suspicion has followed him. Today on capitol hill congressman fattah stated neither he nor any of the others named in the indictment did anything wrong. I understand but the rico
Maximumsecurity prison in acapulco. Clashinghell with the Current Administration over Donald Trumps conflicts. First, the eyes of the world had descended upon hamburg, germany as the g 20 summit gets underway. Leaders of the worlds most powerful nations are gathering to discuss issues ranging from trading Climate Change to counterterrorism. However north korea is bound to make its way onto the agenda with the leaders of japan, south korea, and china president. The focus will undoubtedly be the meeting between donald trump and the russian president Vladimir Putin. For more lets go across to Robert Parsons standing by in hamburg. Good afternoon. What are we likely to get out of this meeting . Our trump and putin likely to see i to eye on anything . That will be adjusting. We dont really know. This has to be one of the strangest meetings, a russian and a u. S. Head of state, for many decades. Bear in mind that donald trump himself has gone on record in at least two occasions saying he is
United states. Number two, why is it the cubans are allowed to come through. Osta rica as a port of entry and automatically become eligible for citizenship . Thank you. That is a very similar question that has come up a lot in the briefs in this case. Classes of lot of immigrants, including refugees from unstable political situations, who congress has said can come into the United States in an accident fashion. Ofre are a lot of examples categories of people that pass administration, including the clinton and bush administration, that says, we do not have time to get a law passed. We are just going to allow it. You have seen that play out. Theyre trying to tell the court, congress has that at this time and this time and this time and that only congress can do it. Administration comes back and says, administration has done it this time, this time, and this time. It will be up to the court to balance those two out. The notion that Illegal Immigrants dont pay their share of taxes is just
Donald trump this weekend claiming the delegate process is rigged. We begin with your phone calls. You can begin dialing. 2027488000 if you are a democrat. 2027488002. Send us a tweet or join us on facebook. Good sunday morning to you. Thank you very much for being with us. Want to begin with this from matthew inside the opinion section of the Washington Post looking at the president ial drocessing it is not rigge even if it is not entirely fair. That is this morning inside the Washington Post. Meanwhile come over the weekend in wyoming, senator ted cruz picking up an additional 14 delegates according to politico. Ted cruz sweeping all of the remaining delegates in wyoming during the states Republican Convention yesterday. The texas senator winning all 14 delegates. It was the only candidate willing to show up in wyoming. Sarah palin was expected to show up but abruptly canceled earlier in the week. That this morning from politico. Over the weekend, donald trump on the campaign trail s