Bribes and stole money to pay off Massive Campaign debts and to fund lavish lifestyle. The scandal led to his defeat in the 2017 Democratic Congressional primary he would quit his Second District seat shortly after his june conviction on 18 corruption counts. The government had requested a sentence of 17 to 22 years but u. S. Attorney hem minimum injury assisted he was not disappointed by the judges ruling. He used his position in congress to benefit himself rather than his constituents and engaged in kimly activity for his own financial benefit. Hes also an individual whos done significant thing on behalf of the city of philadelphia for a number of years. The courtroom was packed with fattah supporters some of whom testified his character witnesses describing a career of helping his constituents and others in areas like education and scientific research. You believe he was goodman . I know he was a goodman. And i think a goodman who made some grievous mistakes. We lose a guy whos got
Loss. Really its sad and really very, very upsetting you know to know that a woman that tried to always help people you know that a tragic thing had to happen to her. Christmas eve, buck, be loved owner of maries groceries was minding her store when the gunman entered. He was never even fully inside the store and he fired multiple times striking her 11 times. That mana cording to investigators is 1yearold mature use green a known criminal littered with drug offense and green was out for bucks grandson who stole a piece of jewelry from green worth between 5 and 10,000. We think he went there with the intention of shooting the grandson he opened the door and saw the grandmother and at that point made the choose he would kill the grandmother. Store buck ran nearly four decades now reads closed as outpouring of grief is on the front steps. Shell nev be forgotten. It was a place neighborhood kids grew up working and would have lunch packed by marie if their moms can could not afford to send
Has not been found and they say they have more than enough evidence against them. Roring live, alexandria hoff. At last check a south jersey woman and great granddaughter are still in virginia one day after a long, dangerous ordeal came to end there. 71yearold Barbara Riley of mays landing and 5yearold great granddaughter are recove recovering they were found wednesday in a heavily wooded area of dim witnessy county virginia why they got lost and how they ended up there remains a mystery. The man that found them in the woods spoke out and did not want his face shown. The greatgrandmother was obviously in trouble of some sort. Was moving her hands and not speaking. Riley and her great granddaughter were missing since christmas eve. They were on their way to North Carolina to visit family. Winds of change are headed our way and bringing us a cold blast for ends of week. Meteorologist kate bilo is monitoring changes and forecast, kate. We started the day with cloud cover and rain and moun
The rest of america. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley well, this has never happened before. The results of an american president ial election are being disputed by the winner. Today the white house said President Trump now believes that as many as five Million People voted illegally based on evidence he was given but is not sharing. To be clear, mr. Trump believes that he did win the electoral vote and the presidency, but he questions how Hillary Clinton could have gotten a nearly three million vote lead in the popular vote count. Margaret brennan is at the white house. The comment that he made was he said three to five Million People could have voted illegally. Based on the studies that hes seen. Reporter white house Spokesman Sean Spicer said President Trump told congressional leaders yesterday that he lost the popular vote by nearly three million votes because of widespread fraud. He did win the electoral college. Hes very comfortable with his win. Hes bringing
This is the Main Assembly line. Reporter Arnold Kamler is the ceo of bca, the Bicycle Corporation of america, his familys business since 1905. The company has a factory in china, but kamler recently moved 10 of bcas business back to the u. S. Why . Wages for Chinese Workers have soared out of sight. Kamler bought this abandoned factory and created 140 jobs, a lifeline in this distressed industrial town. But the only way to make it work was investing in robotics. Were creating jobs with the automation and being able to be price competitive with china now, and it will get even better in the future. Reporter 6 million of automation does the work of more than 100 workers. I dont think a lot of people would look at that as a potential threat. That robot over there will be over here one day. Were not replacing other jobs with these robots. What were doing is were adding equipment that makes us more efficient. Reporter production manager Albertus Jones sees these machines as coworkers. A lot