Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended?
threeonefour@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
If only all politicians did this after a felony conviction.
Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended?
threeonefour@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
If only all politicians did this after a felony conviction.
teamevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He wasn’t guilty, his accusers were the guilty ones. Dwyer did this so his family wouldn’t lose insurance.
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Source? He was a State Treasurer involved in a complicated bribery and contracting scandal. It’s not a he-said-she-said sort of case. His accuser was a deputy comptroller for Pittsburgh Public Schools who noted contracts were wildly overvalued for the work and called the State Auditor General who called the FBI to investigate the matter. Who are you suggesting was lying?
teamevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You know what? I honestly don’t remember where I read it, but because I grew up with Hey Man Nice Shot, I remember reading an article about it… From a half assed Google search right now I find info (100 % trustworthy sources I’m sure) on a straight dope forum… boards.straightdope.com/t/…/24?page=2
White collar crime seems like it’s all from a legal perspective, quite often.
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Interesting! Thanks. That has some more nuance than I was expecting.
PA state government is rife with corruption of every level and so we as residents tend to leap to conclusions that every state official, especially the elected ones, are always committing some kind of crime and it’s just the unlucky ones who get caught and tried. The State Treasurer in particular has a recent bad history.