Another piece of shit politician arrested for fraud charges..

[GasMan]

these fucking dickheads think they can do whatever they want, whenever they want, and the rules don't apply to them. My god, could you imagine what would happen in the private sector if you ran a company 19 trillion into debt? Dirtbags.

And you wonder why conservatives are so hell bent on preventing the government from taking EVERYTHING over..especially our health care.


Clinton Superdelegate Chaka Fattah Found Guilty on Corruption Charges

Chaka Fattah / AP



BY: Joe Schoffstall
June 21, 2016 1:51 pm
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), a Hillary Clinton superdelegate, was convicted on Tuesday on corruption charges stemming from a racketeering conspiracy in which the congressman and four associates misappropriated thousands of dollars from federal, campaign, and charitable sources.
Fattah and four associates were indicted in July 2015 on 29 corruption charges including racketeering, bribery, money laundering, mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, and falsification of records, among other charges.
The Department of Justice said Fattah took an illegal $1 million loan from his failed Philadelphia mayoral bid in 2007 and disguised it as a loan to his consulting company.
At the end of the campaign, Fattah used a scheme to repay the loan through grants and charitable funds from his nonprofit, the Educational Advancement Alliance, and passed through two other companies. In order to pull off the scheme, sham contracts were created to conceal the contributions and repayment operation. False entries were made into accounting records, campaign finance disclosure statements, and tax returns.
Lobbyist Herbert Vederman, consultant Robert Brand, Fattah’s Congressional District Director Bonnie Bowser, and Educational Advancement Alliance CEO Karen Nicholas were charged along with Fattah.
Fattah, who was first elected to Congress in 1995, lost his congressional seat in April after being defeated by Pennsylvania Rep. Dwight Evans in the Democratic primary.

Longtime Philly congressman convicted of fraud
Reuters

 

[GasMan]

I mean, this was fraud shit to the 9th degree...takes a special kind of criminal to do what he did.

 

[Acebb]

Question: Does this actually hurt his election chances?




House Democrats hold off on Fattah expulsion push, for now


"[FONT=&quot] Fattah, 59, offered no indication of whether he intended to resign."

[/FONT]^ That is who and what this pile of shit is.

 

[ScottL]

His son is in jail for some other shit.
This is his wife, who lost her 25 year job at NBC10, probably because of her husband:

Renee Chenault-Fattah out at NBC10

By Chris Brennan, Staff Writer

Posted: February 25, 2016

Renee Chenault-Fattah, the longtime NBC10 news anchor, has parted ways with the station, six months after she was placed on leave following the federal indictment of her husband, U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah.
"Renee Chenault-Fattah no longer works at NBC10," the station said in an email Tuesday. "She remains a friend and valued colleague to all of us. We are truly grateful for her many years of service to the station and our viewers."
NBC10 would not say if Chenault-Fattah, who anchored the 4 and 6 p.m. broadcasts, had agreed to leave or was fired.
Chenault-Fattah, 58, a lawyer who went to work for NBC10 in 1991, did not respond to requests for comment. She announced her departure on Facebook about 30 minutes after NBC10 released a statement in response to questions from a reporter.


"My love for the people of the Delaware Valley goes all the way back to my days as a law student at Penn," she wrote. "I have had a terrific 24 years as a reporter and anchor at NBC10 and I wish the team all the best."
Chenault-Fattah wrote that she was "excited and optimistic about the opportunities that await. Stay tuned."
Chenault-Fattah's high-profile position in a television news organization that covers her husband's career had caused potential conflicts of interest, especially after he was criminally charged.
The potential for conflict was also apparent in the coverage of the federal criminal case against Fattah's son, Chaka "Chip" Jr., who was convicted in November on unrelated theft and fraud charges. He promptly arranged with NBC10 to broadcast his first post-conviction interview.


Chenault-Fattah's job also became an issue when her husband sought the Democratic mayoral nomination in 2007. He was the only candidate who refused to release his tax returns, citing an NBC10 confidentiality agreement about his wife's salary.
Chenault-Fattah said later that the station had waived that provision, but that she decided to keep her salary private anyway.
Fattah, who is paid $174,000 a year as a congressman, has for years put "N/A," short for "not applicable," on the line in annual financial-disclosure forms requesting the amount of a spouse's salary.
The couple's finances have been under scrutiny as Fattah, 58, dealt with the expense of the federal investigation. Fattah's most recent campaign-finance report, filed Jan. 31, listed $42,781 in legal debt.
Last month, a federal judge ordered Fattah's lawyers to keep working on his defense after they petitioned to be dismissed because they were not being paid.


Fattah added two lawyers to his defense team Friday.
In their 85-page federal indictment of the congressman, prosecutors referred to Chenault-Fattah as "Person E" and described her an "affiliate of the Fattah enterprise."
The indictment cast her as a participant in a scheme to falsely report the 2012 sale of her 1989 Porsche Carrera convertible to lobbyist Herbert Vederman for $18,000. Chenault-Fattah and her husband used the money to help purchase a vacation home in the Poconos but kept the car, according to the indictment.
Prosecutors said the payment was part of a "bribery scheme" in which Vederman sought Fattah's assistance in securing an appointment as ambassador to the U.S. Trade Commission.


After the sale, they said, Chenault-Fattah kept the car in her garage for more than two years, and paid to insure and service it. In a letter to NBC10 after the indictment, Chenault-Fattah wrote that she did so because Vederman had no place to keep it.
"I know this was a legitimate sale, but this is not likely to go away anytime soon," she wrote in portions of the letter made public on NBC10's website.
Her husband, now seeking a 12th term in the House while due to go on trial six days after the April 26 Democratic primary, is charged with racketeering, bank fraud, bribery, and money laundering in what prosecutors said was a scheme to repay an illegal loan to his 2007 mayoral campaign.
He has pleaded not guilty.

 

[Willie99]

you mean they're not going to save us? c'mon man, that's funny

next you'll be telling us there's no Santa Clause, silly man

 

[ScottL]

What is with this site and fucking pics? One day they work, next day they don't!

 

[ScottL]

Ok, fuck it then....

 

[matthewt]

1 million

1 million, that's nothing compared to the WTC conspiracy [theory]. He's was in office to make a mistake to see the point of view of other [possible] fraudsters.

Shush()*w-thumbs!^

 

[Willie99]

OMG, we have a live one here

thanks for the laughs, you bring an ear to ear smile to my face

 

[busterhyman]

just ''the man'' taking down another black man. nothing new here

 

[Acebb]

Former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison


A federal judge on Monday sentenced former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattahof Pennsylvania to 10 years in prison, following his conviction on racketeering, fraud and money-laundering charges earlier this year.

The 60-year-old former Democratic congressman, who represented Philadelphia for 11 terms, was convicted in June on 22 counts related to misspending federal grant money and for schemes linked to an illegal $1 million loan he received from a friend to help fund a failed 2007 mayoral campaign in the city.