Favors tied to his position as district attorney. Thomas williams defense attorney admits the 50 yearold made that decision but what he did is not illegal in the opening argument he told jury that the 29 federal craiges, split among five different socalled schemes are part of the unfocused investigation that simply searched for a crime, a crime his defense counsel never occurred. Williams is accused of taking international trips, cash, plane tickets, even a couch in return for helping out friend and two philadelphia businessmen. The government also says that he stole more than 10,000 of his mothers pension and Social Security money, meant to pay for her nursing home and elderly care. Seth, did you expenditure mothers money . Unaudible. Reporter as you heard there from d. A. Seth williams his response was no way. If convicted, on all 29 of these federal counts williams could spend up to 20 years in federal prison. This trial continues tomorrow morning, 9 30. We are live from center city
We have nothing compared to that but we do have some wind. We have some gusty winds that is bringing cooler temperatures. You will notice that today. Lets look at what is going on up there. The temperatures were mild until the rain moved in. We have a 15 degree drop this morning. We stall showers move through. That is when the cold front moved through. Is in the upper 40s the sadder. The rate the radar is quiet. We keep the cloud around as we look to the east this morning. In cedar rapids it is 47 with the clouds. The camera shake and forth a bit. It is 45 in waterloo and charleston. It is 41 in iowa city and 50 in dubuque. It is 12 degrees cooler in cedar rapids compared to yesterday morning. Winds. Lets talk about satellite and radar. You see the clouds continuing to move to the forecast. We will find sunshine this afternoon and the temperatures are 47. It is 60 at 3 00. Will peek at your friday night forecast coming up in 10 minutes. Kevin . We are taking a look at the through much
Threat to the United States. And we better not take them for granted because they are here to hurt us. Narrator but people at fbi headquarters thought john oneill was too much of a maverick, and they stopped listening to him. You could be flagged as a problem, and your career could pretty much be over. Narrator oneill left the fbi and took a new job as head of security at the World Trade Center. Of all the places to go to work and of all the ways that you could lose your life. Narrator tonight, frontline investigates the internal power struggle at the heart of the fbis failure on september 11. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the park foundation
Threat to the United States. And we better not take them for granted because they are here to hurt us. Narrator but people at fbi headquarters thought john oneill was too much of a maverick, and they stopped listening to him. You could be flagged as a problem, and your career could pretty much be over. Narrator oneill left the fbi and took a new job as head of security at the World Trade Center. Of all the places to go to work and of all the ways that you could lose your life. Narrator tonight, frontline investigates the internal power struggle at the heart of the fbis failure on september 11. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the park foundation
Officers benefits which is so important to our first responders. I appreciate the attorney generals strong support for the goals of the justice and Second Chance reauthorization act and forensics reform legislation. Each one are going to improve the effectiveness of our criminal Justice System and id like to see them enacted this year. I know a lot of people in Law Enforcement would like to see them enacted. I appreciate the attorney generals recognition of the bipartisan efforts currently under way in this committee, to address the unsustainable growth of our prison population. The rate were going, there will be no money for Law Enforcement, it will be just in prisons, even to the extent of having geriatric units in these prisons. In a time of shrinking budgets, all levels of government, i think the problem we have in the expanding prison population presents devastating consequences for our other critical Public Safety priorities. If you do nothing and we just allow the federal prison