Ron White's Office Bugged

WPVI .com, ABC6 news ^ | 10/23/2003 | WPVI

[Mo1]

Ron White's Office Bugged
October 23, 2003 — Action News has now confirmed that the Mayor's office wasn't the only place bugged by federal investigators. We have learned that there was at least one phone tap.

By the time FBI agents raided lawyer Ron White's office last week, they apparently already knew a lot about him. That's because his phone was tapped.

Action News has learned that FBI agents have been playing back some of those recordings to people involved in the conversations.

Those people, many of whom have business with the city, have been hiring private attorneys and some are cooperating with the investigation.

White is a longtime friend and fundraiser for Mayor Street. He has handled hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bond deals for the city and his law firm represents dozens of companies doing business with the city.

This investigation has been going on for about two years now, but was kicked into high gear by the discovery of the bug in Mayor Street's office. The Mayor has been identified as a subject of the investigation, but so far, the feds have not called anyone a target, a legal distinction that would mean an indictment is likely.

[Mo1]

Ping .. Here is the story of the update

[Mo1]

Action News has learned that FBI agents have been playing back some of those recordings to people involved in the conversations

I would love to know who they are playing these tapes back too

[longtermmemmory]

Can you imagine what they had to have to get a judge to approve a tap breaching attorney client priveledge? This must be a really big scandal.

[Mo1]

That is what I'm thinking

A couple area Congressmen (Brady, Fatah & Hoffel) wrote a letter to Ashcroft asking him to put off the investigation until after the upcoming election

I'm taking a guess his answer was no

[Temple Owl]

Keep 'em commin. Thanks!

[Phantom Lord]

Upon release of this information, Mayor Streets poll numbers shot up to levels never before enjoyed by a Philly Mayor.

Well, not yet, but would you be surprised?

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for the pings!!

I love this part:

Those people, many of whom have business with the city, have been hiring private attorneys and some are cooperating with the investigation.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

A couple area Congressmen (Brady, Fatah & Hoffel) wrote a letter to Ashcroft asking him to put off the investigation until after the upcoming election.

Lemme take a wild guess:

Brady (D)

Fatah (D)

Hoffel (D)

[Mo1]

*L* .. Guess there a number of nervous folks walking around Philly

My brother in law use to pratice in one of the big firms in Philly .. I'll have to give'm a call ;0)

[Mo1]

BINGO!!

Plus Congressmen Ford was in town last week with Nancy Botox blaming it all on President Bush

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

No way! They figured out how to blame Street's corruption on Bush? That's rich. What was it, not enough federal $$ to the poor of Phila, racism, etc., ad nauseum? LOL!

[Congressman Billybob]

Excellent point. A tap on the office of a co-conspirator is quite logical. But a tap on a person's LAWYER's office? You have to present reasonable evidence that the lawyer was personally involved in a current crime, to breach attorney-client privilege.

Yep, this one is a biggy. And this aspect proves it.

Congressman Billybob

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[Mo1]

Did you catch the video clip of Veron Odom's reporting .. Terry Mcauliffe and James Carville were in town today campaigning for Street and blaming this all on Bush and comparing it to Ken Starr and Clinton's impeachement



VIDEO: Vernon Odom has the Latest in Race for Mayor
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/102303_nw_buggedofffice.html#

[Mo1]

LOL .. yep .. Check out my post on #14

[randita]

In some prior reports, it was speculated that there were people close to the investigation who were cooperating. I thought perhaps someone had seen too much and just gotten fed up with the corruption. Not necessarily so. This report says that squealers are squealing because they're being squeezed.

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[FlyVet]

Yep, this one is a biggy. And this aspect proves it.

I'm an outsider, but have been following this thanks to FR. Very, very interesting to watch this unfold. It must be nasty, since I've yet to hear such characters as Je$$e Jack$on call a press conference and rise to the mayor's defense with the usual cries of "It's racism, it's just racism." Maybe I've been asleep, but I don't remember hearing much about this from the alphabet press either. Hmmmmmmmm......

[Go Gordon]

Terry Mcauliffe and James Carville were in town today campaigning for Street and blaming this all on Bush and comparing it to Ken Starr and Clinton's impeachement

Once, just friggin once, I wish a prominent pubbie would challenge these guys. The challenge: If the allegations are true, they resign their posts. Too many times these scumbags get to spew their nonsense and because the natinal media is liberal, they never follow up with past quotes to show they were wrong and/or lied.

[Antoninus]

Based on the fact that the principles played the race card almost immediately, you can bet that there's something big brewing. White and Chuckles Fatah have been out front on this from the beginning making it look like the investigation is racially motivated. I'd bet my eye-teeth that Chuckles is involved up to his eyeballs.