Salsman was accused of using his position as a private attorney and then district attorney to intimidate and silence his victims, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in the press release. The women who were pressured into sex included women involved in child-custody and criminal cases.
After Salsman was initially charged in February, he had claimed that the allegations were “vicious lies,” according to the AP.
The case was based on claims by five women who testified to coercion. Shapiro had alleged that Salsman would intimidate and coerce the women into unwanted sexual acts on his desk and then direct them to a bathroom in his office to clean up.
Senate Republicans filibustered a bipartisan independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, with 35 Republicans able to vote down 48 Democrats and six Republicans to block the investigation from going forward (11 senators did not vote). So now Democrats turn to Plan B, most likely a select committee. Honoring our responsibility to the Congress in which we serve and the Country which we love, Democrats will proceed to find the truth, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday, following the Senate vote. She didn t say the words select committee, but in the past she has suggested as much, saying last week, as the House voted on the commission, I certainly could call for hearings in the House, with a Majority of the Members being Democrats, with full subpoena power, with the agenda being determined by the Democrats. But that s not the path we have chosen to go. At the time, she said I don t want to have the investigation run through a House committee c
Pennsylvania man sentenced to 5-year probation after voting in name of dead mother
A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to five years of probation after pleading guilty to casting a vote in the name of his deceased mother in an effort to reelect then-President Donald Trump, according to court records and Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer’s office.
Bruce Bartman, 70, received the sentence Friday after entering a guilty plea to two counts of perjury and one count of unlawful voting. Bartman will also lose his right to vote for four years, pursuant to Pennsylvania statute, the district attorney’s office said in a news release.
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A Pennsylvania man who admitted to casting a ballot on behalf of his dead mother for former President Donald Trump was sentenced to five years of probation.
Bruce Bartman, 70, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of perjury and one count of unlawful voting. His sentence will bar him from voting in an election for four years, and he will no longer be eligible to serve on a jury.
“I was isolated last year in lockdown. I listened to too much propaganda and made a stupid mistake,” he told the judge.
He obtained an absentee ballot using the driver s license number of his mother, who died over a decade ago, filled it in, and returned the ballot, prosecutors said. Bartman is also accused of registering his dead mother-in-law, who died in 2019, to vote, but he didn’t cast a ballot under her name, according to the