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October 20, 2016
A federal judge agreed Thursday to throw out four of the 20-plus guilty verdicts returned against a disgraced former Pennsylvania congressman in June, but preserved the bulk of a jury's finding that ex-Rep. Chaka Fattah had helmed a criminal enterprise aimed at bolstering his personal and political fortunes.
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September 23, 2016
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday questioned whether a U.S. Supreme Court decision from June narrowing the scope of federal bribery law could be used to upend the conviction of ex-Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., for accepting gifts in exchange for a string of purportedly official acts.
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September 07, 2016
Prosecutors on Tuesday hit back at post-trial relief motions filed by former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah and others convicted of corruption, telling a Pennsylvania federal judge that the jury's determinations were backed by considerable evidence of conspiratorial conduct.
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August 16, 2016
Claiming prosecutors relied on insufficient evidence and that jury instructions were flawed, former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah and others convicted in a federal corruption trial asked the court on Monday to overturn their guilty verdicts.
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June 22, 2016
While prosecutors cheered Tuesday's conviction of Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., on sweeping racketeering conspiracy charges, some critics view the case as more evidence that the government's increasingly aggressive efforts to root out public corruption has threatened to criminalize unremarkable political activities and relationships.
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June 21, 2016
A federal jury on Tuesday found Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., guilty of orchestrating a sweeping racketeering conspiracy to take bribes, misappropriate federal grant money and charitable contributions, and steal campaign funds.
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June 20, 2016
The reset in deliberations in the corruption case against Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., following the mysterious dismissal of a juror on Friday may have been prompted by an impasse among members of the panel, recordings released by the court on Monday reveal.
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June 17, 2016
U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle hit the reset button on deliberations in the corruption case against Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., on Friday morning after a juror was dismissed for undisclosed reasons.
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June 14, 2016
Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., and a pair of cooperating witnesses who worked on his ill-fated Philadelphia mayoral campaign were blamed during closing arguments Tuesday for the fraud and conspiracy charges facing a group of co-defendants on trial alongside the embattled congressman.
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June 13, 2016
The government summed up its case against Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., on Monday as a jury heard arguments that the congressman and a group of co-defendants had conspired to take bribes, misappropriate grant funds and charitable contributions, and defraud campaign vendors.