The feds, greg, what have you you learned. Well, good afternoon, there, this is ibew local 98 Union Offices, Spring Garden and 17th street. You can see behind me the pennsylvania, state police, have completely surrounded this building. No one can go inside or outside unless you you are a federal agent with the fbi. Those agents collecting, evidence, and serving search warrants. State Police Stand Guard outside local union 98 offices of the International Brotherhood of electrical workers. Ibew local 98 headquartered at Spring Garden and 17th street and its Union Boss John Dougherty at the center of the federal investigation, spanning multiple locations throughout philadelphia. A spokesperson for the philadelphia a division of the fbi would not elaborate on the specifics of the investigation, only releasing a statement in part saying that quote, fbi philadelphia has personnel at a number of locations around the city this morning in connection with an ongoing investigation. The federal ag
Into this 30foot box truck. Investigators also combed through doughertys other office at third street and jackson, serving a warrant and collecting more evident. Sources tell cbs3 news federal agents have collected evidence from at least, eight other locations. Im at a loss. Reporter frank kiehl a Union Spokesperson says that confusion is because he says that local 98s finances, are regularly scrutinized. This union local 98 was subject to multiple, external annual audits, and reviews of their finances and there are numerous checks and balances. Reporter kiehl says that dougherty is cooperating and the organization has been even more careful, after a similar raid in 2006. He is fine. He has been through this, before. As you guys know. So it is somewhat old hat and, he is john. He has nothing to hide. He doesnt know what this is all about. So his spirits are good. Reporter we have reached out to the fbi for comment about the nature of this investigation, they responded only with this st
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At least three locations connected to dougherty were raided this morning. Doughertys home and pub in south philadelphia and Union Headquarters of the International Brotherhood of electrical workers in Spring Garden. Sky force 10 is live over Philadelphia City hall, where fbi is also raiding the offices of city council northeast Philadelphia District office. We have a lot to cover and we have a lot of reporters working on this. Nbc 10 Live Team Coverage of these raids. We begin with nbc 10s Rosemary Connors. She is live outside doughertys home in south philadelphia. Rosemary, what are you seeing there . Reporter tracy, all morning long, investigators have been inside two homes here on the 1900 block east moinminhsa evidence. The brown brick home belongs to John Dougherty. And the home next door, that belongs to a Family Member of John Dougherty. Investigators also inside there. Oftentimes in these kind of fbi raids, you will see investigators bringing bags of evidence outside. That has
The fbi has made no comment as to the nature of the investigation. A spokesperson for local 98 answered questions saying the union is subject to multiple audits a year and he doesnt know why it would come under financial scrutiny by the feds. I can also tell you that its somewhat puzzling that theyre investigating johns home because nothing in johns home or about johns home has changed in the the last 10 years since the last time the fbi raided johns home. Reporter dougherty was never charged after that 2006 raid. Action news spoke with former federal prosecutor george perry about todays raids during which a number of warrants were served. It would be fair to say that theyre not fooling around. They have reason to believe that crimes are being committed and they have reason to believe that the searches that theyre conducting will produce evidence of those crimes. Reporter now, the fbi is asking anyone who may have pertinent information to the investigation to give them a call. That num