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
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
Well go through some of the details. Whats your initial blush on this . Is your reaction that its politically motivated . He is a democrat. The president s a democrat. Much of the administration is democratic appointees, and others. Why would they be doing it, and if so, what is the point . Well, my initial take is that its not politically motivated its that when you read the indictment, theres a real case here. Now, obviously, the congressman is presumed innocent, but its gonna be a tough climb for him because theyve got a lot of goods. Theres a lot there. He did say hes gonna stay in office. He will not resign. He stepped down from a subcommittee appropriations level appointment in the house so that he wouldnt have to be dealing with money issues. But nonetheless, hes staying in office. And well read a statement from him, saying that he has as i previously stated, ive never participated in any illegal activity or misappropriation of taxpayer dollars as an elected official. He says th
Trumps son eric, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as well as trump as former opponents like ted cruz. And thinks certainly not been your typical, convention, we have talk about that, all week long. And we also talk to one of the deputy party chairs of the republican party, of pennsylvania, and renee amore who has been to every Public Convention since 1996 and, see what makes this one so different. Heres what she had to say. It is a whole new feeling. The way mr. Trump came out we have never had a candidate come out and do these things. We have had president obama just to come out and show his face that he was there. President bush, he came out, congratulations to barbara bush but never had it like this it is totally different. He wanted to make it, you know, much better. This is his much better. Reporter we are join by republican analyst allison young, thanks for being with us, it has been great to be here with you. You were with Governor Scott walker all afternoon. He will speak ton
Ready and so is how enforcement. We hope your air conditioning is working. If not we are hoping you can find one that does. We are under a excessive heat warning and hottest day is yet to come. It is sunday july 24th, good morning aim rahel solomon there will be quite the clean up joe for a few neighborhoods after storms rumbled through the philadelphia region. Take a look at this huge tree that came down on two cars in Magnolia Camden county. A woman was pulled from the wreckage but unhurt. And haddon heights, eyewitness cam video shows rain and hail pouring down. Roughly 4,000 customers are still without power this morning. So, after the night that we have, fortunately things have calmed down and cooled down for now. Lets look at what is a he had for the day. Lets go to meteorologist Justin Drabick. Good morning. We are in the extreme heat, mid 90s but difference is a drop in humidity. You can feel that difference now. Still humid to day but not as bad as yesterday. Yesterday we hit