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D.A. to charge 2 more Phila. Democrats in sting(PA)
philly.com ^ | 12/16/2014 | Craig R. McCoy and Angela Couloumbis

Posted on 12/16/2014 12:56:17 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra

HARRISBURG - Philadelphia prosecutors plan to announce criminal charges Tuesday against two more elected officials ensnared in the undercover sting investigation that state Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane rejected as too flawed to prosecute.

District Attorney Seth Williams is expected to announce charges against State Reps. Vanessa Lowery Brown and Ronald G. Waters, both Philadelphia Democrats, for allegedly accepting cash from an undercover operative, according to people familiar with the matter.

Waters' attorney, Fortunato Perri Jr., said he was making arrangements for Waters to turn himself in Tuesday morning.

Perri said he expects Waters will face felony charges of conflict of interest and bribery, but declined further comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bribery; fortunatoperrijr; fraud; kathleengkane; pennsylvania; philadelphia; philidelphia; ronaldgwaters; sethwilliams; vanessalowerybrown
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Two more Dems who thought they were going to skate.
1 posted on 12/16/2014 12:56:17 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Vanessa Lowery Brown and Ronald G. Waters

2 posted on 12/16/2014 1:00:56 PM PST by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Kane is flawed.The only reason she didn’t take the cases is because the perps are DEMOCRATS.


3 posted on 12/16/2014 1:02:48 PM PST by Renegade
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Kudos to Seth Williams, who could easily have simply let the fix be in.


4 posted on 12/16/2014 1:04:29 PM PST by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

They’ll be later shown to have only gone along with it to help further investigations against Republicans ... or something ....


5 posted on 12/16/2014 1:04:40 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Hands down, you CLOWNS!


6 posted on 12/16/2014 1:05:41 PM PST by Mark (Obama Care is now DEMOCRAT CARE)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Typical criminal DIMs. Typical DIMs.


7 posted on 12/16/2014 1:37:48 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Dr. Thorne

Accepting cash bribes from undercover Feds is not a good life skill.


8 posted on 12/16/2014 1:38:40 PM PST by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: hal ogen
allegedly accepting cash from an undercover operative

Weren't they getting enough cash already through all manner of creative financing, funding, and book-cooking?

Apparently not.

Perhaps they were big on energy-saving appliances, you know... money stashing er saving "green" freezers.

9 posted on 12/16/2014 1:44:03 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

The Democrat Attorney General Kathleen Kane, elected by Penn State football fans over the Sandusky fallout, is currently under investigation by a grand jury in Montgomery County over a grand jury leak from her office that hurt a political rival.

In this case of corrupt Democrats when she refused to prosecute the Philadelphia Democrat DA Seth Williams, who prosecuted abortionist Kermit Gosnell after a grand jury investigation, demanded her records so he could pursue the case.

Williams looks like a good Democrat to me again.....Kane looks like the kind of person you would expect Bill Clinton to endorse like he did when she ran in the Democrat primary in 2012.


10 posted on 12/16/2014 1:45:35 PM PST by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

The Demwit Atty General of PA calls the cases deeply flawed. That’s just the most recent reason she should be removed.


11 posted on 12/16/2014 2:01:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

One of the big challenges for urban black politicians on the take is that they’re not lawyers. If they were lawyers they could take the kickbacks in the form of legal fees/retainers/consulting, plus hide behind the atty/client privilege. Corrupt white politicians who are attorneys get to do this, so it’s unfair targeting. I’ve actually heard this exact complaint in Chicago.

Really.


12 posted on 12/16/2014 2:08:04 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Nextrush
The Democrat Attorney General Kathleen Kane, elected by Penn State football fans over the Sandusky fallout

She was AG before he was convicted. She did not even convene the Grand Jury that investigated him, Corbett did. Sandusky had nothing to do with the rise or fall of her fortunes.

Kane refused to prosecute both Gosnell and the corrupt Philadelphia representatives because all are black, and she has a history of racial preferences.

Justifying her refusal to prosecute, she claimed that the lead prosecutor in the AG's office had referred to the investigation as the "Black Caucus Project," a claim that he denies. Even The Philadelphia Inquirer, to the left of the old Pravda on nearly all issues, called her out on her failure to pursue the case.

Likely she has aspirations to a Federal appointment, which you don't get from the Department of Just Us if your racial prosecution record is impure.

As for Stevens being a "stand up Democrat" that is highly unlikely. More likely he belongs to a rival Democrat faction and is using the prosecution as a means to clearing the way for his own ambitions. Or worse: maybe he plans to pull an Arlen Specter and switch parties once he gets himself a name.

13 posted on 12/16/2014 2:10:41 PM PST by FredZarguna (I'm gonna take this counter top, and I'm gonna whop you on that side of your face with it.)
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To: SunkenCiv
The corruption was so egregious -- and the atmosphere apparently so friendly to bribery -- that one of the perpetrators openly solicited investigators for cash and named specific amounts. She even told one investigator to bring it to her office in an envelope and hand it directly to her, and they could have drinks later.

Kane's claim that the case is "deeply flawed" stems from the fact that all of the future convicts are black. She believes that in and of itself constitutes a reason not to prosecute. I think she's looking for a Federal AAG job, which would preclude her indicting black defendants.

14 posted on 12/16/2014 2:15:43 PM PST by FredZarguna (I'm gonna take this counter top, and I'm gonna whop you on that side of your face with it.)
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To: FredZarguna

Thanks Fred!


15 posted on 12/16/2014 2:25:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: SunkenCiv
Не за что!

Here's my favorite part:

Waters, said he "may have received something" from the undercover operative in the probe, Philadelphia lobbyist Tyron B. Ali, on his birthday.

Setting the jury up for: "I did not think a cash payment of $8250 would be illegal if it was a birthday present." The Birthday Defense. Gotta love it.

16 posted on 12/16/2014 2:38:26 PM PST by FredZarguna (I'm gonna take this counter top, and I'm gonna whop you on that side of your face with it.)
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To: Renegade
Kane is flawed.The only reason she didn’t take the cases is because the perps are DEMOCRATS.

That was Marsha Coakley's M.O. as A.G. in Massachusetts, too. It was the feds who started busting democrat politicians for corruption (including one caught on video shoving wads of cash up her bra at a restaurant). Marsha saw no evil (if it was being done by a dem).
17 posted on 12/16/2014 3:12:18 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

They might yet.


18 posted on 12/16/2014 3:44:56 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Gabrial

Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Lets be fair. Accepting cash bribes from decent people, like contractors, vendors and lobbyists, is a very good life skill. It was in their failure to recognize undercover agents that their training failed them. Furthermore, accepting cash bribes can be fun. They take you out to fancy restaurants, wine and dine you, and then leave you with a thousand dollars to pay the tab, politely only alluding to what they want in hints and euphemism. It’s the federal agents who should be ashamed of themselves, for failing to be as obvious as an undercover cop at an activist meeting usually is. How dare they put on a good act. What? Do they belong to SAG?


19 posted on 12/16/2014 3:50:37 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: denydenydeny

It would seem, then, that Seth Williams is a decent man with a sense of right and wrong.

Good on him, if so.


20 posted on 12/16/2014 3:56:54 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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