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A stark contrast to the way she's been portrayed in the media, Jocelyn Kirsch, in a white jacket, khakis and a ponytail, is soft-spoken, She had beer for dinner last night, Jocelyn Kirsch tells the judge when she was asked whether she had any alcohol. She said she had been hospitalized for psychiatric care and listed three or four medications she was taking under doctor's orders.
The judge reads a laundry list of charges while Kirsch, flanked by her attorneys, remains standing.
-- From reporter Sam Wood in the courtroom
Live from the courtroom, the Inquirer is blogging the federal corruption trial of State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo and his longtime friend and associate Ruth Arnao.
Highlights of testimony, rulings and the courtroom scene will be posted here regularly. Fumo, a Democratic state senator since 1978, is accused in a 139-count indictment of conspiring to defraud the Senate, a South Philadelphia nonprofit, and the Independence Seaport Museum; obstruction of justice; and tax violations. The fraudulent activity totaled $3.5 million, prosecutors allege.
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