Casino67 Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 .jammie.com: In a stunning development the word Democrats was used in the first sentence of the story. This is dated Tuesday and hasn’t made any national headlines, so that part makes sense. State Reps. Ron Waters and Vanessa Lowery Brown, both Philadelphia Democrats, surrendered Tuesday in Harrisburg on bribery, conflict of interest and other charges after a Philadelphia grand jury investigation. The charges pick up from a long-running state investigation that was spurned last year by Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, but that Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams later took up. Williams said both lawmakers have appeared before his grand jury and “fully admitted that they knowingly took illegal cash payments.” Waters, the current secretary of the House Democratic Caucus and a House member since 1999, was charged with accepting nine payments totalling $8,750 from a confidential informant posing as a Harrisburg lobbyist to “exercise that God-given right of leverage.” Brown, a member of the state House since 2009, was charged with taking $4,000 on five different occasions from the informant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Quite a find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Nice to see you posting, @Casino67! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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