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Monday, March 16, 2009

Councilman Kenney Sad But Not Surprised On Fumo Verdict

City Hall's inhabitants have been monitoring very closely the federal corruption trial of former state Sen. Vince Fumo pretty closely since it started in October. A lot of people in this building got their start in politics by way of Fumo. One of them is City Councilman Jim Kenney, who spread word in a committee hearing this morning that the jury had come back with a verdict.

Kenney later expressed sadness for Fumo and his family but not surprise at the verdict. He said juries seem more likely to convict these days. Kenney hasn't spoken to Fumo in weeks and didn't ask about the trail when they caught up. "When I talk to him that’s the one subject I don’t talk about," Kenney said. "It’s like being sick and having people ask you how you’re feeling."

Posted by Chris Brennan @ 12:54 PM Permalink | 21 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:23 PM, 03/16/2009

No word yet from DiCocco. He is a puppet, and probably has to get someone to write his 2 sentence lines for him.

— Philly_Guy

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:23 PM, 03/16/2009

Luke, I'm your father.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:24 PM, 03/16/2009

Maybe someone needs to stand up and say the emperor has no clothes, instead of gee, I'm sad that the emperor got caught naked.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:38 PM, 03/16/2009

SAD? I say the FEDS go after our corrupt city council next.

— PhillyS1980

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:55 PM, 03/16/2009

Senator Fumo did a lot for this city that was good, lets not try and forget that.

— FQ95

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:57 PM, 03/16/2009

Joe, Vinny is going to have to be a CI or witness if he ever wants to feel the sun shine on his face again. I sure hope he didn't shred everything. His life is going to depend now once more on what he kept.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:00 PM, 03/16/2009

Fumo kept Philly a corrupt pay to play city by being a state legislator who prided himself on abusing the rules, and raising a generation of pols in that mindset who still pollute the city. There was only a Street who said "white people do it all the time" because there was an unchecked Fumo. Theft of public services is not "a lot of good for the city." Conspiracy to commit theft of public services is theft, and being a thief cancels out the nice things you do.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:00 PM, 03/16/2009

The source of all corruption in this town? Unions.

— wompus

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:03 PM, 03/16/2009

FQ, imagine a pol who did "a lot of nice things for the city" but who wasn't also corrupt. I know it's hard. I know it's like an abuse victim trying to imagine being with a partners who's not going to abuse them. I get that you are Rihanna have a lot in common, but try to imagine a landscape without your Chris Brown in it.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:21 PM, 03/16/2009

CleanupPhilly, oh my that was a good one LOL!!!!

— Sadler48

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:22 PM, 03/16/2009

Modern day SS agents? Wow grow up will you and oh read a book while your at it. Your city union and councilmen act more like the thugs that were the SS than the FBI. Ward leaders oh in Nazi Germany they were called brown shorts or the SA that would go around and bully people for votes. But hey Philly will always be this way after 55 years of solid democrat leadership.

— lcd24

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:23 PM, 03/16/2009

"more likely to convict" --- ??? Yes, the jury convicted a guilty scummy politician. What are you hiding, Kenney?

— maude

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:29 PM, 03/16/2009

Thanks, dude. The Star Wars, or the Dem voter as Rihanna joke?

— CleanupPhilly

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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics – which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com

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