Today his sentence was handed down. Eyewitness News Reporter greg argos is live in front of the federal courthouse where the former congressman just spoke. Greg . Reporter rahel, good afternoon there is all happening in just the past hour, in fact, the former representative just left the federal courthouse, but chaka fattah of course after being sentenced to ten years in federal prison, for 18 different count of public corruption, money laundering, and bribery charges. I want to thank my team, my lawyers, who have done an extraordinary job, we have received a sentence, we respect the courts decision. We wont have much after comment on that. But dow want to thank all of the witnesses who stepped forward and talked today and i want to thank over 200 people who wrote letters to the court on my behalf, and this is a circumstance in which now has accords dollars the dear termination there is phase of the process has come to a conclusion, and again i want to thank my legal team and i want to
, and friends through this very tough time. Reporter moments earlier in front of the judge Harvey Bartle the third fattah expressing regret and saying investigation and trial have been the most disappointing event in his now 60 yearold life. It is a long fall for chaka to take who served as a congressman for this state, and he also served as a state legislator. Reporter u. S. Attorney zan e, who helped prosecute fattah on 18 counts of federal corruption charges including money laundering, racketeering , bribery says he hopes that this sentence, the second longest ever handed down to a member of congress, is a warning belfor other dis honest politicians. Some folks lose sight of the fact that they are here to serve the public and they may engage in certain activity, to line their pocketbooks and live that life that they think they are entitled to. And, the thing is, you have to be careful about what you do. Reporter judge says that what happened in the courtroom will be heard throughout
That see only the negative and theres a lot of positives going on here and i hope, i hope that that is seen and thought about. He still has work left undone so we need him to be table reply Enter Society as soon as possible so he can continue to pay it forward relative to the lives he has wrote touch. Reporter fat is a at as wife left Court Without comment. Federal prosecutors that had called for 17 to more than 20s years in prison for fattah. But the judge obviously chose to impose far less than that. Today chaka fattah was sentenced to 10 years in prison and thats a significant sentence. Reporter sharrie, in addition to 10 years behind bars, mr. Fattah will have to pay over 600,000 in restitution to the agencies he ripped off. He remains free on bail until january 26th. Then he must surrender to federal authorities t live at the federal courthouse in center city, im vernon odom channel6 action news. All right, the sentencing making national headlines. Vern, thank you. Meantime a man
All right, guys, were off to app partly cloudy start. It looks like there might be some sun peaking through some of these early clouds, maybe, maybe not. In any event the general pattern of the day going to be to increase those clouds and well wind up fairly overcast later on. 35 degrees is your currents temperature in philadelphia. We are off to a cold start and i expect that number to dip a little bit over the next hour or two. 30 degrees below freezing in allentown, 32 in reading, run in lancaster, 35 in trenton, 34 in wilmington, 33 in millville and Still Holding onto 40 degrees in cape may. Not a lot of wind out there this morning so you dont have to worry about any big deal wind chill. 7 Miles Per Hour wind in philadelphia currently. Heres how its going to go today. 33 degrees by 7 oclock, maybe some sun for some of you. And then by noon 40 mostly cloudy skies there. And your high at 3 oclock is going to be 47 under mainly cloudy skies. 40 by 5 oclock and by 7 oclock 38 degrees.
Inches of snow across the midwest is creeping our way. Live look at Blue Mountain and the poconos mountains, weve seen flakes in Lehigh County, road crews salting the roads, im lucy noland im iain page. The system could make for a slippery commute. Teach crutch tracking this storm, brad sattin is in allentown where folks are bracing, lets begin with meteorologist kathy orr. We had one round of snow with a warm front now here comes the cold front. You can see the snow moving toward the Lehigh Valley and poconos. Its imminent. It will be there within the next hour two, two hours moving toward the northeast, well be seeing snow, sleet, freezing rain, and rain, but look at the real estate this covers from the midwest through new york. Pennsylvania, new jersey, and new england. 15 states impacted by this winter storm. We do have that Winter Weather advisory through tomorrow morning for snow then sleet then freezing rain changing to her rain. When we look at the snowfall amounts and we go th