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January 28, 2016
Despite their unpaid legal bills, attorneys for Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., must continue representing their client zealously in an ongoing corruption case or risk tarnishing their reputations, especially since a potential conviction could lead to an argument on appeal that the congressman suffered from ineffective counsel.
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January 27, 2016
A federal judge has denied a bid by attorneys for Rep. Chaka Fattah seeking to withdraw from a massive corruption case facing the Pennsylvania Democrat over concerns that he would be unable to promptly pay them for their work.
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January 26, 2016
U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah's decision to focus on political rather than legal fundraising prompted a federal judge on Tuesday to urge the indicted Pennsylvania Democrat to rethink his priorities as his attorneys attempt to withdraw from the corruption case for lack of payment.
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January 21, 2016
The attorneys representing Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., against federal bribery and corruption charges moved Wednesday to withdraw as counsel, saying the congressman has not made good on promises to pay them, which was made public Thursday when the judge refused their requests to keep those motions sealed.
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January 15, 2016
A lobbyist and former Philadelphia deputy mayor charged alongside U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., in July as part of a sweeping corruption indictment is asking a federal judge for a separate trial in order to avoid being tainted by allegations in the case that don't involve him.
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December 17, 2015
Transcripts of grand jury proceedings that led to bribery and corruption charges against Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., show no prosecutorial misconduct, a Pennsylvania federal judge held Wednesday, denying bids by the congressman and co-conspirators for unredacted copies of the documents.
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September 23, 2015
A Pennsylvania federal judge said Tuesday it was too early in the bribery and corruption case against Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., to conclude he was attempting to taint potential jurors by publicly suggesting the investigation behind his indictment was politically motivated.
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September 21, 2015
A Pennsylvania federal judge was urged during a hearing on Monday to bar Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., from raising arguments during a pending corruption trial that he should be cleared of charges due to political motivations by prosecutors or his history of good acts as a public servant.
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September 11, 2015
U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., accused federal prosecutors on Wednesday of attempting to improperly silence him by seeking a court order aimed at preventing him from introducing evidence during a pending corruption trial that charges against him ran afoul of the jury's overarching sense of fairness.
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August 27, 2015
A Pennsylvania federal judge was urged Wednesday to prevent Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., from raising arguments during a pending corruption trial suggesting that he'd been the subject of a politically motivated investigation.