An ousted Pennsylvania congressman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for a racketeering scheme that included money laundering and bribery.
U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle called Chaka Fattah’s crimes “astonishing” given that he and his TV anchor wife had a $500,000 annual income.
A jury found that the Philadelphia Democrat took an illegal $1 million loan to prop up a failed 2007 run for Philadelphia mayor, then repaid it with funds that included NASA grant money steered through an education nonprofit run by former staffers.
Source: AP
