Vanessa Lowery Brown and Ronald G. Waters
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.
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Vanessa Lowery Brown and Ronald G. Waters
Kane is flawed.The only reason she didn’t take the cases is because the perps are DEMOCRATS.
Kudos to Seth Williams, who could easily have simply let the fix be in.
They’ll be later shown to have only gone along with it to help further investigations against Republicans ... or something ....
Hands down, you CLOWNS!
Typical criminal DIMs. Typical DIMs.
Accepting cash bribes from undercover Feds is not a good life skill.
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.
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.
The Demwit Atty General of PA calls the cases deeply flawed. That’s just the most recent reason she should be removed.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks Fred!
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.
They might yet.
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?
It would seem, then, that Seth Williams is a decent man with a sense of right and wrong.
Good on him, if so.
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