Defense attorneys in the Bonusgate corruption case say their clients are not criminals, but victims of a political culture that has existed for decades.
Republicans last night selected a political newcomer who has never sought elected office as their nominee in the special election to succeed the late U.S. Rep. John P. Murtha.
Federal prosecutors Wednesday charged the former chairman of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and a close ally of convicted former state Sen. Vincent J. Fumo with obstruction of justice.
The jury is expected to begin deliberating today in the public corruption trial of an ex-lawmaker and three aides and will decide, among other issues, whether legislators billing taxpayers for meals while collecting per diems for food and lodging is a crime, a prosecutor said.
The arrest of a northcentral Pennsylvania man on Internet child pornography charges spurred dozens more arrests from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, state police said.
Both political parties are taking tea party activists seriously and are wary of offending them – if they are not already actively wooing them for state races this fall. Just look at the governor’s election in Ohio. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich openly touts his tea party credentials in his bid to defeat incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland. “I think I was in the tea party before there was a tea party,” Kasich famously told a Columbus crowd earlier this year. “This is a real movement with a real message about people’s frustrations by broken promises that leaders on both sides of the aisle would be foolish to ignore,” he went on to write in a blog posting.
