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Philadelphia City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson, wife indicted on federal corruption charges
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 01/30/2020 | Jeremy Roebuck and Chris Brennan

Posted on 01/29/2020 8:03:45 AM PST by Kid Shelleen

Federal authorities accused Philadelphia City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson on Wednesday of illegally exploiting his elected office to advance his wife’s consulting career. In a 21-count indictment, prosecutors alleged that Johnson, 47, and his wife, Dawn Chavous, 40, pressured a nonprofit seeking his help with rezoning legislation into offering her a job in 2014. That charity — Universal Companies, a community developer and charter school operator founded by renowned music producer Kenny Gamble — employed Chavous as a consultant.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: kenyattamondatta
Kenny Gamble is half of the famous music writing/producing team "Gamble and Huff". He must be fabulously wealthy but still had to use social justice to fleece tax payers and deprive the needy.
1 posted on 01/29/2020 8:03:45 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: 2banana; Antoninus; big truck; brityank; bt-99; ConorMacNessa; cowboyusa; Dems_R_Losers; dirtboy; ..

*** Philly Metro Ping ***


2 posted on 01/29/2020 8:04:24 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

“The bitch set me up!”


3 posted on 01/29/2020 8:04:51 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kid Shelleen
WOT!😱👮
4 posted on 01/29/2020 8:06:44 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The guy already issued a statement yesterday.

“The fed has been out to get me for some time.” (paraphrasing)

So, yeah, Kenaytta Johnson “IS” the real victim here.


5 posted on 01/29/2020 8:07:39 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: dfwgator

Both are innocent and will be set free. Right name and right party affiliation.


6 posted on 01/29/2020 8:07:50 AM PST by 353FMG (After God, In Trump we trust.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

You can take the man out of Africa, but you can’t take Africa out of the man.


7 posted on 01/29/2020 8:19:06 AM PST by bkopto
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To: bkopto

“You can take the man out of Africa, but you can’t take Africa out of the man.”


I don’t know how much is Africa and how much is just plain old-fashioned political grifter. Come on, man, look at the Bidens, the Clintons...


8 posted on 01/29/2020 8:22:27 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

It’s a Democrat thing, more than a black thing. Just as many corrupt white Democrats. And yes, plenty of corrupt Pubbies, too.


9 posted on 01/29/2020 8:23:12 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Just another example of the man keeping me down...


10 posted on 01/29/2020 8:26:04 AM PST by shotgun
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To: dfwgator

You put people next to large piles of money and lots of them are going to want to “wet their beaks”.


11 posted on 01/29/2020 8:26:24 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

Sure, no group is immune. But just open your eyes and look at Africa. The genocide is about to start in SA.


12 posted on 01/29/2020 8:29:53 AM PST by bkopto
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To: hanamizu

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” - P.J. O’Rourke


13 posted on 01/29/2020 8:31:44 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hanamizu

Besides, let’s talk percentages.


14 posted on 01/29/2020 8:32:20 AM PST by bkopto
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To: shotgun

Just another example of the man keeping me down...

My first thought!


15 posted on 01/29/2020 8:35:14 AM PST by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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Kenyatta

Whodathunkit ? !

LOL

16 posted on 01/29/2020 8:50:41 AM PST by tomkat
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To: bkopto

People of all races have been getting rich doing government work since the beginnings of government work.

The genocide that may (hopefully may not) happen in S.A. has little to do with a guy in Philly skimming money. Killing people who are different from you isn’t just an African thing either. White folks in Europe were doing it in the last century.


17 posted on 01/29/2020 8:51:44 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: bkopto
You can take the man out of Africa, but you can’t take Africa out of the man.

I disagree.

I know some black people that do not have the ghetto attitude and are not corrupt. Every race has it's good apples and bad apples.

Unfortunately many blacks have been made dependent on government handouts.

18 posted on 01/29/2020 9:21:32 AM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Kenyatta? Yes he kan.

No justice, no America.


19 posted on 01/29/2020 11:45:09 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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