Daily News | A bought politician or bribery scheme invented by prosecutors? In Kenyatta Johnson’s trial, a jury will now decide.
There was one point upon which lawyers on opposite sides of Kenyatta Johnson’s federal bribery trial agreed in their final pitches to jurors Tuesday: There is no smoking gun to prove the Philadelphia city councilmember accepted nearly $67,000 in bribes disguised through a consulting contract with his wife.
But Johnson’s lawyer, Patrick Egan dismissed prosecutors’ theory of the case as a collection of “cherry-picked” facts strung together to create an incriminating-looking but ultimately baseless fiction. U.S. District Judge Gerald A. McHugh is expected to deliver instructions to the jury on the law Wednesday morning before handing the case over to the nine men and three women set to decide the couple’s fate.
In June 2012, he noted, Chavous — a noted charter school advocate and politically-connected consultant — had reached out to Universal Companies offering her services, but at the time Dawan told Islam they had no use for her because the organization already had people who could do the fundraising and marketing services she was offering.
Days after that email from Dawan, Islam met with Johnson. He set up a meeting with Chavous the very next day. Johnson would eventually push the requested zoning bill through Council and again weigh in against city efforts to seize Universal’s lots at 13th and Bainbridge Streets after the nonprofit failed to live up to the terms of a sales agreement requiring it to develop the property.
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