https://freerepublic.com/tag/fbpdplt/ en-us Fri, 4 Sep 2026 14:06:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394214/posts President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence for longtime Philadelphia union leader John Dougherty. He is set to be released on Friday. Dougherty’s attorney George Bocchetto said the president signed the commutation in “a remarkable show of bipartisanship.” Dougherty was a kingmaker in Democratic city politics, but Bocchetto said his situation — serving time in Lewisburg federal prison, separated from his gravely ill wife Cecilia — cried out for compassion. KYW(Philadelphia) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394214/posts#comment Fri, 4 Sep 2026 14:06:48 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3130985/posts PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge has ordered philly.com to reveal the name of an anonymous commenter, in a defamation suit brought by electricians’ union leader John Dougherty. An attorney in the case says it could have a broad impact on incendiary online comments and those users, sometimes called “trolls,” who post them anonymously. The anonymous defendant in the suit, disguised by the nonsense name “fbpdplt,” called Dougherty a name in the comments section of an article on the website, one of the properties in the media group that also owns the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News. CBS https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3130985/posts#comment Sat, 8 Mar 2014 15:18:35 GMT