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Avalanche of details from probe (Transcripts and other evidence of pay-to-play at City Hall)
Philly.com/Philadelphia Inquire ^ | Feb. 17, 2005 | John Shiffman, Craig R. McCoy and Mark Fazlollah

Posted on 02/17/2005 5:12:14 AM PST by Mo1

Federal prosecutors yesterday deepened their portrait of Philadelphia City Hall as a crass marketplace where campaign money, favors and personal contacts were exchanged for taxpayer-paid contracts.

That picture was sharpened by the release of more than 1,100 wiretap transcripts, e-mails, internal memos, tax returns, surveillance photographs and other evidence gathered by the FBI's long-running City Hall corruption investigation

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; johnstreet; philadelphia

1 posted on 02/17/2005 5:12:16 AM PST by Mo1
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To: Dog; Owl_Eagle; Temple Owl; cmsgop; Lancey Howard; blam; randita; PA Engineer; Intolerant in NJ; ...

FYI Ping


2 posted on 02/17/2005 5:12:34 AM PST by Mo1 (Question to Liberals .. When did supporting and defending Freedom become a bad thing??)
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To: Mo1; 7.62 x 51mm

imagine that ping


3 posted on 02/17/2005 5:16:13 AM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: Mo1

Reference links http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/

ON TAPE, WHITE TO GIRLFRIEND: ' LIE TO FBI'
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/10920250.htm


PAY-TO-SEE 'EM PLAY AT LINC
MAYOR'S BOX USED TO RAISE $$
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/10920247.htm


The political mixes with the personal
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/10920502.htm


WHITE: MILTON'S BAD NEWS, MAN
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/10920248.htm


Tape Transcripts in FBI Probe of Philadelphia City Hall
http://inquirer.philly.com/specials/2005/Bug/


4 posted on 02/17/2005 5:23:35 AM PST by Mo1 (Question to Liberals .. When did supporting and defending Freedom become a bad thing??)
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To: Mo1

Kind of like New Jersey, huh!


5 posted on 02/17/2005 5:29:09 AM PST by OldFriend (America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
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To: OldFriend

Ya know .. I don't know who's worse
They both have major problems


6 posted on 02/17/2005 5:34:00 AM PST by Mo1 (Question to Liberals .. When did supporting and defending Freedom become a bad thing??)
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To: Mo1
Truth be told, blue states have done nothing for it's citizens, other than enrich a certain privileged few.

The blue counties are hardly habitable. (is that a word?)

7 posted on 02/17/2005 6:01:21 AM PST by OldFriend (America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
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