Multimedia - The Trial of State Senator Vincent Fumo

Sentencing: Ruth Arnao statement
Sentencing: Judge Buckwater sentences Ruth Arnao
Sentencing: Ruth Arnao(complete audio)
Fumo Statement: Vincent Fumo addresses the court
Sentencing: Judge Buckwalter sentences Fumo
Courtroom Audio: Fumo takes stand, gets sentenced
Fumo Sentencing: Audio from the morning session
Audio: The reading of the verdict

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Former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo is in federal prison ; he was convicted in March of defrauding the charity.

Fumo excused from Citizens' Alliance lawsuit

A Commonwealth Court judge excused former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo from a civil suit against Citizens' Alliance for Better Neighborhoods because he was not an officer or director of the South Philadelphia nonprofit that he once said under oath was "my baby."

Judge issues orders in Fumo sentencing - 08/21/2009
Inquirer Breaking News Blog: Live: Arnao gets one year, one day - 07/21/2009
The Fumo Letters - Part 2 - 07/15/2009
The Fumo Letters - Part 1 - 07/15/2009
Heard in City Hall: City recycling rates soar - 07/15/2009

Extended audio from the courtroom

Feb. 23, 2009, morning session: Closing Arguments
Feb. 23, 2009, afternoon session: Closing Arguments
Feb. 24, 2009, afternoon session: Closing Arguments
Feb. 24, 2009, morning session: Closing Arguments
Feb. 25, 2009, morning session: Closing Arguments
Feb. 25, 2009, afternoon session: Closing Arguments
Feb. 26, 2009, morning session: Closing Arguments
Feb. 26, 2009, afternoon session: Closing Arguments
March 3, 2009, morning session: Defense Closing
March 3, 2009, afternoon session: Defense Closing
March 4, 2009, morning session: Defense Closing
March 4, 2009, afternoon session: Jury charge

Fumo guilty on all counts; must post $2 million bail: Former State Sen. Vincent Fumo was convicted of all 137 counts against him today as his marathon federal corruption trial ended in a stunning victory for prosecutors.
Gallery: Verdict big flash
Fumo lawyers target juror, deliberations: Defense lawyers for former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo moved late today for an immediate halt in jury deliberations and the removal of one juror, contending that the juror posted oblique remarks on Facebook.com and Twitter.com - including one declaring, "Stay tuned for a big announcement on Monday everyone!"
Friend tapped daughter's trust fund to give Fumo cash: In a trial thick with jaw-dropping moments, former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo provided one of the biggest shocks of all when he blurted out that a close friend had given him a whopping gift: $1 million.
Testimony ends in Fumo trial: After testimony from 105 people, the last witness stepped down yesterday in the marathon federal corruption trial of former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, setting the stage for closing arguments next week.
Gallery: Images entered as government exhibits in the trial against Vince Fumo.
Gallery: FumoAudioBanner
Audio: Fumo Trial: Howard Cain Testimony2(edited for length)
Former political strategist for Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, Howard Cain, testified yesterday that he worked to defeat Fumo's estranged daughter in a Whitemarsh Twp. supervisor race.
Audio: Fumo Trial: Howard Cain Tesitmony1(edited for length)
A longtime confidant of State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo's testified yesterday that he received more than $500,000 under lucrative Senate contracts while working as Fumo's political hired gun - and submitted false bills to justify his paychecks.
Audio: Fumo Trial: Cogan questions Marrone
Lead defense attorney Dennis Cogan questions Sen. Fumo's son-in-law Christian Marrone.(Exerpt, edited for length)
Audio: Fumo Trial: Christian Marrone testifies about Citizen Alliance and relationship with the Senator.
Fumo's son-in-law Christian Marrone testifies about his concerns about Citizen Alliance for Better Neighborhoods and his relationship with State Sen. Vincent Fumo.(edited for length)
Audio: Fumo Trial: Christian Marrone tesimony, (Day 2, Exerpt)
Christian Marrone the son-in-law and former aid to Sen. Vincent Fumo testifies he kept e-mails for his own protection.
Audio: Fumo trial: Christian Marrone testimony
Edited for length.(5 min) Christian Marrone the estranged son-in-law of Sen. Vincent Fumo testified that he was hired to work in the state senator's legislative office but spent much of his time overseeing renovations at Fumo's mansion.
Vincent J. Fumo: A High-Impact, Controversial Career
Excerpts From Fumo Speech: My father - Vince Fumo Sr. - suffered from leukemia and passed away in 1992, shortly after my mother had died of complications from a broken hip. God bless them both. I always miss them, but on days like this I miss them the most.
Fumo's departure throws state Senate race into flux: State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo's decision not to seek reelection after 30 years in office blows wide open the Democratic primary race for his seat.
Text of Senate speech
Details emerge on Fumo, Verizon: The president of Verizon Pennsylvania struck a secret "gentleman's agreement" with State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo under which the phone company agreed to pay millions to a law firm of Fumo's choosing, according to court testimony yesterday.
Interviews, testimony on Fumo-Verizon deal: At a federal court hearing Monday, prosecutors and the FBI disclosed new details about an agreement between Verizon and State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo (D., Phila.).
If 2 wealthy senators did break the law, the question is why: Some experts don't agree with the prosecutors' answer: Pa.'s Vincent J. Fumo and N.J.'s Wayne R. Bryant are greedy.

The region's two recently indicted state senators were - and are - rich and powerful men. The personal wealth of Pennsylvania Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, a banker, lawyer and licensed electrician, has been estimated at $20 million, and his stock and options from the bank his grandfather founded are worth an additional $13 million.
U.S. says Fumo lawyers' loyalties may be torn: In a motion, prosecutors say Sprague & Sprague has also represented organizations the senator is accused of defrauding.

Prosecutors said yesterday that State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo's lawyer, Richard A. Sprague, has a likely conflict of interest because he also represented the alleged victims in the case - and could even be called as a witness himself at next year's trial.
The Cuba trip
The Phila. house
The farm: In early 2003, Fumo bought a $515,000 farm north of Harrisburg. He stocked it with horses, goats, crops, Senate employees and goodies from Citizens' Alliance: a bulldozer (and multiple repairs to it), an all-terrain vehicle, a tractor and a pickup truck.
Trash haulers as political plunderers? Not their bag: In the junkyard-dog realm of South Philadelphia politics, paranoia is just self-preservation. So it probably made sense to think dirty tricks were afoot when workers for a charity linked to State Sen. Vincent Fumo took trash bags from curbside at the homes of John Dougherty, business manager of electricians' Local 98, and the union's president, Harry Foy, on the morning of March 16.
A business deluge, a rainmaker under a cloud: He has been what lawyers call a "rainmaker." He's lined up government and corporate clients for a Philadelphia law firm that pays him well for this - as much as $1 million a year.
Fumo's brush with greatness, $100 a gallon: Who pays nearly $100 for a gallon of white paint? Of all the things that recently indicted State Sen. Vincent Fumo's Citizens' Alliance for Better Neighborhoods allegedly purchased with public and donated funds, it's the paint that has people shaking their heads.
Tom Ferrick Jr. | The Prince wanted too much, and too much wasn't enough: Vince Fumo's downfall was caused by excessive excess. It was not simply greed, but an arrogance born of power.

I got to page 100 in the Vince Fumo indictment before I was stopped short. It was the tiki torches that did it.
Mayoral candidates proceed with caution: No one knows what effect Fumo's indictment will have. As a campaign weapon, it could backfire.

Bob Brady was reveling in the moment. It was early Friday afternoon, and he had just been endorsed for mayor by the ward leaders who compose the Democratic City Committee.
Monica Yant Kinney | Fumo's defense: Brilliant, flawed: In the interest of fairness, I have been asked by no less a legal legend than Richard Sprague to allow State Sen. Vince Fumo the opportunity to tell his side of the story.

PROFILE

Behind smile, Fumo ferocious

Friends of Sen. Vincent J. Fumo say he is brilliant and could have been anything - a surgeon, maybe - but he became a politician so he could help more people.

SLIDE SHOW

Through the Years

A look back at Sen. Vincent J. Fumo's career - from campaigning in 1978 to his retirement announcement on March 12.

AUDIO

Fumo's lawyer responds: Charges are political

State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo's lawyer attacked the U.S. attorney's motives yesterday and called the 139 charges against his client nothing more than a malicious effort by the Bush administration to drive powerful Democrats from office.
Click here to listen to the audio.

FUMO SPEECH / INDICTMENT

Text of Senate speech

During a 12-minute speech Feb. 5, 2007 on the Senate floor, state Sen. Vincent Fumo told his colleagues that "I know in my heart that I have not done anything illegal."
Audio of speech

Text of indictment

The 267-page indictment issued Feb. 6, 1007, charges State Sen. Vincent Fumo with 139 counts of conspiracy, fraud, obstruction of justice and filing false tax returns.

U. S. attorney's press release

The U.S. Attorney's Office announced the indictment against the senator and three of his aides in a press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007.
Audio of press conference.

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