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June 26, 2007

Fumo Unable To Get Verizon To Just Give Him $15 Mil

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Turns out Vince Fumo's "I'm being unfairly targeted by President Bush" letter to his constituents (which was also paid for by his constituents) was pretty timely after all. Currently, Fumo's lawyers are in court arguing for their right to represent Fumo in the most boring hearing in American history. The Inquirer is, of course, liveblogging it.

During yesterday's portion of the hearings, prosecutors alleged Fumo and Verizon struck a "gentlemen's agreement" that if Verizon gave the state senator a handjob (in this case, "handjob" means "millions of dollars to a law firm of his choosing") he wouldn't push to break up the company.

As talks proceeded, prosecutors say, Fumo offered to drop his fight and pushed Verizon to give $15 million to Citizens Alliance. Unlike Peco[, who gave $17 million], Verizon refused to do that. But according to the testimony yesterday, [ex-Verizon prez Dan] Whelan did agree to give an unspecified amount to the Philly Pops - orchestra conductor Peter Nero and Fumo are close friends - and to hire a law firm designated by Fumo.

Then everyone involved went to their vaults of gold coins and swum around a la Scrooge McDuck. Ha ha, rich people are awesome, aren't they?

Details emerge on Fumo, Verizon [Inquirer]
The Case Against Sen. Fumo [Philly.com]

Posted by D-Mac on June 26, 2007 02:12 PM
Posted to Rich People , Verizon , Vince Fumo , White People

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Comments

Did Larry Mendte swim in Fumo's vault wearing a bikini? I think they went out on a date once.

Posted by: ALB at June 26, 2007 03:38 PM

put this asshole and his buddy dougherty (the 2 of them) in jail already

Posted by: mike at June 27, 2007 12:56 PM

Fumo and Dougherty aren't buddies.

I also meant to say Erin O'Hearn in that other post and not Larry Mendte.

Posted by: ALB at June 27, 2007 03:54 PM

I wonder how the people of the South Philly (who directly benefit from Citizens Alliance in the form of little league uniforms and clean neighbourhoods among other things) would fare had the Senator simply didn't get involved.

Posted by: trace at June 29, 2007 10:18 AM