Fumo aide admits conspiracy, obstruction
p2pnet news view | Crime:- Leonard Luchko n(left), 52, a former aide to disgraced Pennsylvania state senator Vincent Fumo —- a “high-rolling Philadelphia Democrat” charged with looting the state Senate, a nonprofit and a museum of more than $2 million in goods and services —- apparently shares a chuckle with his lawyer, James Schwartzman, after pleading guilty to conspiracy and obstruction.
Luchko admitted conspiring with the “longtime power broker” to “destroy e-mails and other evidence during an FBI extortion probe,” says the Associated Press.
“Computer technician Leonard Luchko’s guilty plea on 29 obstruction-related counts comes a month before state Sen. Vincent Fumo’s scheduled federal trial.
“Luchko agreed to testify against Fumo” who, by having, “virtually all his pre-2005 e-mails destroyed, thwarted the FBI’s investigation, “into millions in donations he sought from Peco Energy and Verizon for the nonprofit, Citizens Alliance for Better Neighborhoods, prosecutors said, according to the story. which goes on:
“In exchange for his plea and agreement to testify against Fumo and two co-defendants, prosecutors will ask a judge to sentence Luchko to no more than two years in prison. The conspiracy charge alone carries the possibility of a five-year prison term.
Fumo, 65, a lawyer and heir to a family bank fortune, “beat two indictments early in his political career,” adds AP.
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Associated Press -Lawmaker’s aide pleads guilty in Pa. corruption, August 11, 2008
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