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Sam06
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Willie Singletary wants your vote for congress.
But there is a back story, he just got out of jail for lying to the FBI when he was a Judge[:0]
Plus his court was so corrupt it was disbanded[B)]
I think with those qualifications he will make a great addition to congress[;)]
The story:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/former-philly-traffic-court-judge-convicted-of-lying-to-feds-seeks-fresh-start-in-congress-20171228.html
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He resigned from local office amid a sexual harassment scandal and went to prison for lying to the FBI. His office was seen as so corrupt that voters abolished it. Now he wants a fresh start ? in Congress.
?Even though I made some mistakes, I?m not a mistake,? Willie Singletary, a former Philadelphia Traffic Court judge, says in a video announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the First Congressional District in 2018. ?And just like many in our community, we all could use a fresh start.?
Singletary, now 36, was one of several judges charged in 2013 in a ticket-fixing scheme that prosecutors said benefited the ?politically and socially connected,? and cost the state and city hundreds of thousands of dollars in unrealized fines.
A federal jury in 2014 found Singletary not guilty of the public corruption charges but convicted him of lying to federal investigators. He was sentenced to 20 months in prison and was released in November 2016. Traffic Court was abolished that year by voters in a statewide ballot measure; moving violations were absorbed by Municipal Court.
SMH..............
Willie Singletary wants your vote for congress.
But there is a back story, he just got out of jail for lying to the FBI when he was a Judge[:0]
Plus his court was so corrupt it was disbanded[B)]
I think with those qualifications he will make a great addition to congress[;)]
The story:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/former-philly-traffic-court-judge-convicted-of-lying-to-feds-seeks-fresh-start-in-congress-20171228.html
C&P
He resigned from local office amid a sexual harassment scandal and went to prison for lying to the FBI. His office was seen as so corrupt that voters abolished it. Now he wants a fresh start ? in Congress.
?Even though I made some mistakes, I?m not a mistake,? Willie Singletary, a former Philadelphia Traffic Court judge, says in a video announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the First Congressional District in 2018. ?And just like many in our community, we all could use a fresh start.?
Singletary, now 36, was one of several judges charged in 2013 in a ticket-fixing scheme that prosecutors said benefited the ?politically and socially connected,? and cost the state and city hundreds of thousands of dollars in unrealized fines.
A federal jury in 2014 found Singletary not guilty of the public corruption charges but convicted him of lying to federal investigators. He was sentenced to 20 months in prison and was released in November 2016. Traffic Court was abolished that year by voters in a statewide ballot measure; moving violations were absorbed by Municipal Court.
SMH..............
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He's a democrat...
Wonder how long it will be until he injects race into the issue if he does not get another chance after all he is a DEMOCRAT.