Of political corruption. Now the indictment against congressman shack at a fattah and four of his associate Social Security filled with several allegations that we do have video of the congressman with president obama this is recent video. Now the 29 count indictment stems from several alleged schemes circling around misappropriateing federal charitable and Campaign Funds. Officials say one of the schemes involves borrowing millions dollars from a wealthy supporter for his failed Mayoral Campaign back in 2007. The indictment accuses fattah for paying some of that money back by using money and federal grants from a Nonprofit Charity he founded founded and controls. Another alleged scheme includes using Campaign Money to pay off his sons Student Loans from 2007 to 2011 totaling about 23,000. Now this is what officials said at the press conference just moments ago. The public expects their elected officials to act with honest teen integrity. The public does not expect their elected offici
For vacation house up in the poconos, and then they create a sham transaction. Reporter fattah stepped down as chair of the House Appropriations committee but plans to remain in office. He responded to the allegations outside of his d. C. Office. This is not deflategate. This is a normal issue of which there are allegations after a very long running eight year investigation. Reporter mayor nutter has known fattah and his family for years. He said despite allegations fattah has done a lot of good for city. He has been a champion for this city a and across United States of america in terms of education. Reporter fattahs attorney tells me that they knew the nature of these allegations for some time now and they plan to fight the charges. Were live from overbrook Syma Chowdhry for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Same, thank you. We will have continuing coverage of the fattah indictment at 5 30 our Pat Ciarrocchi speaks with fattahs mother about the indictment. Tonight at 6 00 we will take a deeper l
Politicians in our area. Pennsylvania congressman chaka fattah indicted op charges of corruption but tonight he vows to stay in office. Good evening im ukee washington. Jessica is off tonight. Federal Authorities Say fattah mishandled hundreds of thousands of dollars of charitable and campaign funds. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is in our Satellite Center right now with a closer look at the charges against the influential democrat. David. Reporter ukee the congressman mentioned numerous times in this 85 page indictment indictment. He denies any wrongdoing but federal officials they believe and they are confident that he will be behind bars at some point. The conduct that congressman fattah engaged in undermines public safe and government. Blunt words from us attorney zane david hem injury who laid out this case against congressman chaka fattah. Fattah and his associates engaged in a coverup lasting years in an effort to avoid detection. Reporter the 29 count indictment tells th
The charges against the influential democrat. David. Reporter ukee the congressman mentioned numerous times in this 85 page indictment indictment. He denies any wrongdoing but federal officials they believe and they are confident that he will be behind bars at some point. The conduct that congressman fattah engaged in undermines public safe and government. Blunt words from us attorney zane david hem injury who laid out this case against congressman chaka fattah. Fattah and his associates engaged in a coverup lasting years in an effort to avoid detection. Reporter the 29 count indictment tells the story of what authorities call schemes. Some words included in the do you mean, fraud bribery, sham and conceal. The congressman who went to washington in 1995, is accused of borrowing a Million Dollars from a wealthy supporter and only paying some of it back using money and federal grants from a Nonprofit Charity he runs. Hes also accused of using 23 grand in Campaign Money to pay off his son
Charged in a 29count indictment on charges ranges from conspiracy to bank fraud to bribery. It is wednesday night. And the big story on action news tonight is the federal indictment of chaka fattah. The u. S. Attorney made the announcement today and described fattah allegedly engaged in four schemes. Fattah accused of ill legally using federal grants and donations to his Nonprofit Educational Foundation to pay back a 600,000 debt from his failed Mayoral Campaign in 2007. And to net him hundreds of thousands in profits. The indictment also accuses him of trying to steer a 15 million federal grant to a consultant in exchange for forgiving of a debt. Charges say that fattah tried to use Campaign Funds to pay back 23,000 of his sons student loans. And the indictment talks about an 18,000 bribe from a lobbyist to finance a Vacation Home in the poconos. The public expects Public Officials to act with honesty and ti integrity. These type of criminal acts betray the public truck and undermine