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May 8, 1943
Fumo is born in South Philadelphia, grandson of the man who founded Fumo Building & Loan in 1923.
1962
After attending Notre Dame Academy...
SLIDE SHOW
A look back at Sen. Vincent J. Fumo's career - from campaigning in 1978 to his retirement announcement on March 12.
BLOG
Inquirer reporters Emilie Lounsberry and John Shiffman blog a hearing on the federal government's attempts to disqualify Sen. Vincent Fumo's attorneys, Sprague & Sprague.
PROFILE
The speaker introducing the guest of honor went on and on about how brilliant the guest was, how he could have been anything - a surgeon, maybe - but became a politician so he could help more people. People like his listeners there in the Queen Village kitchen.
FUMO SPEECH / INDICTMENT
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
Audio of speech
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.
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.
Audio of press conference.
AUDIO
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.
Click here to listen to the audio.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A den of enablersThe muted reaction in Harrisburg over the indictment of State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo says a lot about what the market is willing to bear in the state capital.
- 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.
- 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.
- Accused State. Sen. Vincent J. Fumo's lead attorney denounced the federal charges against his client yesterday, calling them "weak" and politically motivated.
- A sweeping indictmentAmong the many dubious perks that federal prosecutors allege state Sen. Vincent J. Fumo engineered through his Pennsylvania Senate office and a Philadelphia community nonprofit was the free use of a bulldozer at Fumo's farm near Harrisburg.
- State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo defrauded a multimillion-dollar charity, used Senate staff for personal and political errands, and engaged in a cover-up after the FBI and IRS began to investigate him, a grand jury charged today.
- State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo used taxpayer and charity money to pay for everything from political polls to power tools, from cars to farm equipment, from errands to shopping sprees, a grand jury charged yesterday.
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- HARRISBURG - In a preemptive strike on the eve of his likely indictment, a defiant State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo took the fight to federal prosecutors yesterday, vowing to contest charges he called "falsities and half-truths."
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