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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

For today's testimony, click below. For more detail on the case, and the investigation that led to Fumo's indictment, go to this special report from The Inquirer.
Posted by Inquirer Breaking News Team @ 5:56 PM  Permalink | 3 comments
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Posted 03:01 PM, 11/20/2008
Justice4All
Let me get this straight Coyne and Marrone (Republicans) get immunity and they both admitted to embezzling money from Citizens Alliance but the two computer techs Luchko and Eister (Democrats)who are just a couple of working guys, that according to the Government didn't profit by this in ANY way got indicted. That STINKS!
Posted 04:17 PM, 11/20/2008
Vinnie Gambone
Kenney got more than an email account, he got bank stock at insiders prices, he got free polling, he got a job through Fumo's intervention with Vitetta Corporation, a job he still holds, and he got to hand out Citizens Alliance checks at election time to worthy organizations. What's wrong with that is this self dealing increases the organizations political power so much that they become so formidable they can extort large sums from entities like PECO< THE DRPA, and Verizon. And they did! Just like with his staff whose submissiveness Fumo cultivated, it appears the heads of corporations and boards were also reluctant not to bend to Fumo's will, and therein is the abuse of power. Fumo is not a corrupt individual. He is a crrupt and corrupted organization. and Kenney and DiCicco are his subordinates if not his partners. Their Motto? We Get Theft Done!
Posted 04:17 PM, 11/20/2008
Vinnie Gambone
Kenney got more than an email account, he got bank stock at insiders prices, he got free polling, he got a job through Fumo's intervention with Vitetta Corporation, a job he still holds, and he got to hand out Citizens Alliance checks at election time to worthy organizations. What's wrong with that is this self dealing increases the organizations political power so much that they become so formidable they can extort large sums from entities like PECO< THE DRPA, and Verizon. And they did! Just like with his staff whose submissiveness Fumo cultivated, it appears the heads of corporations and boards were also reluctant not to bend to Fumo's will, and therein is the abuse of power. Fumo is not a corrupt individual. He is a crrupt and corrupted organization. and Kenney and DiCicco are his subordinates if not his partners. Their Motto? We Get Theft Done!
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About Inquirer Breaking News
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.

More information and background on the Fumo trial.