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.
Sentenced for his guilty plea on a single corruption charge. However, he basically admitted he was guilty of all 29 charges where he took bribes while in office. Williams resigned immediately and faces five years in jail. His deputy, assistant District Attorney kathleen martin, whos basically been running the office ever since williams lost his law license, will continue to run the office until a new d. A. Is sworn in. Val, you went to school with Seth Williams, you know him very well. Id like to start with you. Why do you think Seth Williams put everyone through a long, arduous investigation, a trial that lasted the better part of a couple of weeks, and his relative absence at the d. A. s office itself . Whyd he put everyone through this . Well, let me say i start off by saying its a sad day for philadelphia. Its a sad day for people who knew seth. Like, in high school, a great guy, a leader. Im shocked by this. Ive been shocked all along at why he went, why he did this. I mean, maybe
The snow showers and then skies will slowly clear with temperatures falling through the 30s and the 40s into the 20s overnight tonight. So its ba tock that much colder air we have another clipper coming tomorrow morning and a colder pattern in the seven day forecast. Well be back with that with your seven day in just a few minutes. All right, kathy. Thanks. Remember you can always get up to the minute weather and live looks at ultimate doppler head to fox29. Com. Happening right now, a mothers pain. A young woman and a young girl both killed by a hitandrun driver and tonight a suspected drunk driver arrested but of course nothing will bring back the lives lost in this crash. A 19yearold mother of two and her 10yearold sister both died and their mother is now speaking out. As fox 29s bruce gordon reports she wants her story to save you from her pain. Reporter a Family Members gathered to mourn fouryearold hakeem and threeyearold at a jay seemed blissfully unaware that their mom was the
Your accuweather. Lets go to karen first to talk about that crash on the blue route much go,. Yeah, were starting with our breaking news in Delaware County where weve got an overturned tractortrailer so heres the tractortrailer and you can see it kind of flipped over right here. Theyre still out here working on it. Weve got a number of police officers, emergency vehicles here blocking the ramp from i95 southbound to the blue route so that ramp is completely blocked. This accident happened at 3 30 this morning. So, its been blocked now for about an hour and a half. You cant get from i95 southbound to the blue route and thats because of this accident involving an overturned tractortrailer. Police on the scene right there and you can see one of my twitter followers, a little guy, 217 sent this great image where you can see how its completely on its side. Weve got debris on the roadway, wheels are up so they need to upright that tractortrailer before they can even begin to clean up the deb
Really fascinated by the couch cash, neckties, watches, and even took 20,000 improperly out of a fund that was meant to go to his mothers healthcare. How do you wrap your mind around what was going here . If anybody should have known this can come back to bite you, he should have known. Right. Cognitive dissonance is just beyond the pale here. Its stunning to the degree of these charges. Now, again, we know there are allegations, there are charges, innocent until proven guilty, blah, blah, blah. But with that being said, the case that the government has laid out before us is more than disconcerting and disheartening for generations of people and for every citizen. And not just that. For all his adas, for the police department, for every conviction thats come underneath. I mean, his purview, this is not a new d. A. , a new day that he gave us eight years ago when he said, okay, im gonna do things differently. This is probably one of the worst that we have seen if these allegations prove