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: fattah s attorney tells me that they knew the nature of these allegations for some time now and they plan to fight the charges. we re live from overbrook syma chowdhry for cbs-3 eyewitness news . same, thank you. we will have continuing coverage of the fattah indictment at 5:30 our pat ciarrocchi speaks with fattah s mother about the indictment. tonight a
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. nbc10 s keith jones is live now in our digital operations center with more on what the congressman had to say today. he s 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. i m going to spend my time helping millions more and i m going to let my attorney it s going to be important to my constituents that this not be a distraction in terms of my would, and i m going to try not to have it
we ll go through some of the details. what s your initial blush on this? is your reaction that it s 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 it s not politically motivated it s that when you read the indictment, there s a real case here. now, obviously, the congressman is presumed innocent, but it s gonna be a tough climb for him because they ve got a lot of goods. there s a lot there. he did say he s gonna stay in office. he will not resign. he stepped down from a subcommittee appropriations level appointment in the house so that he wouldn t have to be dealing with money issues. but nonetheless, he s staying in office. and we ll read a statement from him, saying that he has as i previously stated, i ve never participated in any illegal activity or misappropriation of taxpayer dollars as a
south jersey and much of the tea brings are tangled in power lines. by midday expert tree cutters from the new jersey forest fire service were out with the electric company but officialness washington township were frustrated with atlantic city electric over delays. as time goes by with no electricity, frustrations are growing every where and expenses are mounting. all of those items in there we hand pack ourselves, you know and it is all labor intensive and it is just it hurts. reporter: that is one of the worst parts about this is even when this power comes back on the restaurants and these shops they don t just reopen for business, they have to make the product, they have to get things ready. this could be a problem that last several days once power is restored. live from washington township i m cleve bryan cbs-3 eyewitness news . tough go there cleve thanks very much. at the height of the storm more than a hundred thousand homes were dark in delaware county. crew
annie mccormick is live in voorhees with the latest from there. tough times for them, annie. reporter: monica, that s right. some parts of camden county that s the case. here in voorhees you can see debris lining the streets. which is actually a sign of progress because that debris made its way from front and back lawns on to the streets here eventually hoping to get it cleaned up. but not every part of camden county now has power back on like here in voorhees. some people are still in the dark. it s been a little more than 48 hours season the storm. what we re getting from atlantic electric it could be saturday or sunday. dark apartments are part to have plame for four seniors with breathing problems and were hurt due to falls. i have to go to my doctor tomorrow he may tell me to go to the hospital and because i m having a hard time breathing now. camden county emergency management officials are working with volunteers of america who run the hud facility a backup