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
Chaka fattah is not under arrest, the u. S. Attorneys office accusations against him are wide ranging. The 85 page indictment accuses misspending of taxpayer money and charitable donations. It includes allegations about a wealthy supporters secret Campaign Loan and taking a bribe from a lobbyist who wanted to be an ambassador. These are allegations that the people involved in are innocent until proven otherwise. Congressman fattah says hes done nothing wrong as he stood in the halls of congress today. Back in his home district, federal prosecutors announced racketeering, conspiracy and related charges dating back to 2007 and his failed bid for philadelphia mayor. The public expects their elected officials to act with honesty and integrity. The largest scheme involved a disguised Campaign Loan. 600,000 of which the feds alleged he repaid by funneling charitable donations and taxpayer money through a nonprofit he controlled. In scheme two, they allege he cleared a Campaign Consulting deb
Several years when chaka fattah lost his bid for mayor in 2007, they aalleged use his nonprofit and federal money and charitable donations to pay back 600,000 in campaign loans. To disguise the source of these loans fattah and his coconspirators arranged for the payments to pass through two other companies, including one run by defendant robert brand. He was the ceo of adventurement education alignment. They then falsified records to conceal the alleged crimes but it appears that fattah was not just trying to get out of debt but also profiting he took 18,000 to buy a poconos Vacation Home his cost a job for the daughter of the deputy mayor of philadelphia herbert vederman. The sham sale never took place. He is accused of taking Campaign Funds to pay his sons Student Loans and to console it they paid a Consulting Company to pay off the loans. From 2010 to 2011, the Political Consultants used the funds to make the loan payments for fattahs son totalling 320,000. Corruption like today rol
Little encouragement maybe to tell the Senior Citizens in your neighborhood to get to a local senior center, the closest in this neighborhood is at 41st and poplar. Im rosemary connors, nbc 10 news. You step outside, you feel it. We are in day eight of a heat wave. Change is in the air. Big changes coming our way. So far it is still hot as the heat and humidity leave us simmering. These people are looking for a sea breeze along the Atlantic City boardwalk today. Nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking some rain. And a break in the heat, we hope, right . Yeah, thats right. They didnt get the break with the sea breeze at the shore today because it was a land breeze and it was every bit as hot right at the beaches. Weve got a lot of sunshine. Weve had that during the day today. That helped push the temperature up. We have gotten into the 90s once again. We started this last tuesday with 93 degrees. We had three Straight Days of 90 plus, thursday, friday