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May 20th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
A number of Philadelphia city judges will stand trial in the coming weeks after being accused of organizing a ticket-fixing scheme that benefited politically-connected members of the city, an issue that compelled officials to ban traffic court altogether.
After a delay, Monday opening statements in the corruption trial
were scheduled to begin next week. The trial aims to determine
whether six current and former judges are guilty of the 77 counts
they were indicted for.
“The defendants participated in a widespread culture of
giving breaks on traffic citations to friends, family, the
politically connected, and business associates,” said a
statement from US attorney Zane Memeger as quoted by CBS.
The accusations first surfaced more than a year ago, with
investigators asserting that six judges and two connected
businessmen conspired to reduce penalties for friends, family,
and other associates. Philadelphia Traffic Court oversees moving
violations, but not parking violations, in the city.
Government prosecutors say that because so many fines were
reduced or altogether tossed out, the judges defrauded the city
and state of Pennsylvania out of an untold amount of funding. The
trial has been pushed back multiple times, with prosecutors
worrying that testimony could be tainted by the years the accused
spent in the court system.
“The government anticipates that many of its witnesses will
be adverse given their loyal relationships with the
defendants,” Assistant US Attorney Denise Wolf, one of the
two prosecutors, wrote in a court filing, as quoted by the
Philadelphia Daily News. “Indeed, the
government has repeatedly encountered hostility from some of the
witnesses in preparation for trial.”
All of the judges have pleaded not guilty, saying that the
preferential treatment amounted to nothing more than requests for
“consideration.” Jeffrey M. Miller, a former federal
prosecutor who is representing one of the judges, told the Daily
News that the government may have difficulty proving its case.
“It’s grabbing at a nucleus of facts, which technically may
be a minor infraction,” he said. “Instead, the
government has expanded this thing into a major prosecution…I
think it’s overkill…There are not bad people and these are not
criminals.”
If this was true, prosecutors say, the implicated judges would
not have sought to keep their dealings secret “by shredding
paperwork, speaking to one another in code, and trusting only
certain individuals and not others to carry out the scheme.”
Three judges and a court worker who was described as a middleman
for ticket-fixing requests pleaded guilty early this year.
Source Article from http://rt.com/usa/160040-philadelphia-judges-fixed-traffic-tickets/
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