Date for october 24th. And then stunned the courtroom when they said to handcuff Seth Williams and take him to jail until sentencing. Its likely he will get five years without a chance for parole. Today he admitted he sold his office for a corrupt series of payment. Payments that included money, trips, cars and other expensive items. From jurors that sat through nearly two weeks of government witnesses. This reaction to the sudden development. I am disappointed i would like to have seen it through and every day i went one way or the other. One thing i heard would make me go one way and another thing i would hear would make me go the other way. Brian, Seth Williams told the judge this morning he is flat broke and not a flight risk at all and the judge told him i dont trust you sold your office. Live at the courthouse in senter city, vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Lets switch live to action news reporter, sara bloomquist, with reaction from inside of the das office today.
Insurmountable. And stealing money for his mothers nursing home care and misusing city owned vehicles and using his election money for personal use. The 28 other counts were dismissed but had admit to the whole kit and caboodle line by line. What he wanted to do most was get closure for his family and himself and the city. Its unfortunate that we have to gather and disruption corruption like this in the city of philadelphia. Seth williams took a deal prosecutors offered him before the trial opened. If he had been convicted on all the charges he was facing his term could have been 20 years and now it looks like he will get five. Judge paul diamond says he could not trust williams to stick around and they handcuffed him and ordered him to stay in jail, locked up until the sentencing date. The view from the jury box never having chance to deliver a verdict. I think i was more on the guilty side and a lot of the evidence we were presented so far was not so great for mr. Williams. Jim, at t
Take effect, sunday at noon, damascus time. According to secretary of state Rex Tillerson the president opened his meeting with putin by raising concerns , about moscows meddling in the 2016 president ial election. He said putin denied being involved, President Trump has avoided stating unequivocally that russia interfered in the election. President trump referred to mexicos president , as his, friend and their first facetoface meeting. That also took place in hamburg. Back in january, president nie to cancelled a meeting with trump following tensions and questions of mexico paying for the United States border wall n this meeting they discussed terms of the north American Free trade agreement between the u. S. , mexico and canada and, according to reports they do not, discuss the border wall. And in the meantime on the streets of hamburg authorities tried to prevent groups of anti capitalist protesters from disrupting the summit. Protesters started fires in the streets while German Pol
Take effect, sunday at noon, damascus time. According to secretary of state Rex Tillerson the president opened his meeting with putin by raising concerns , about moscows meddling in the 2016 president ial election. He said putin denied being involved, President Trump has avoided stating unequivocally that russia interfered in the election. President trump referred to mexicos president , as his, friend and their first facetoface meeting. That also took place in hamburg. Back in january, president nie to cancelled a meeting with trump following tensions and questions of mexico paying for the United States border wall n this meeting they discussed terms of the north American Free trade agreement between the u. S. , mexico and canada and, according to reports they do not, discuss the border wall. And in the meantime on the streets of hamburg authorities tried to prevent groups of anti capitalist protesters from disrupting the summit. Protesters started fires in the streets while German Pol
Temperatures, 71 degrees currently. Im trying to decide which day i should gee to the shore after i get off work because it looks like a good shore weekend draft. Today it will be hot and humid with spot showers possible, but this is not the kind of rain that will cancel any plans. Moving forward, well be cooler and let humid for your sunday. And then it is a wet workweek as we get in to the extended long forecast. So we are tracking as we move forward quite a few changes on that extended forecast. Coming up, well take a closer look at that, talk more about your highs neighborhood by neighborhood and ill let you know how long we might see rain duringing the workweek. The g20 summit continues right now in hamburg, germany with President Trump meeting with more World Leaders this morning. But much of the attention is still focused on the president s meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin. Randy gyllenhaal is live with details on what they discussed and who President Trump is meeti