Post by Logan on Feb 3, 2016 2:41:41 GMT -6
Chaka Fattah Jr. gets 5 years in prison, ordered to pay $1.1 million restitution
Before being sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $1 million restitution to the clients and banks he defrauded, Chaka "Chip" Fattah Jr. told the court that the government had gotten it wrong.
That argument clearly went nowhere.
U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III ordered that the congressman's son be immediately taken into custody. He was hauled away while his father, U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), his mother, and a sister sat in the gallery.
Earlier, the younger Fattah, acting as his own attorney, as he had at trial last fall, argued during an hour-long sentencing hearing that the government had misinterpreted things, had improperly gotten the media involved in his life, and had ruined his life.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/20160203_Chip_Fattah_to_be_sentenced_today.html
Before being sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $1 million restitution to the clients and banks he defrauded, Chaka "Chip" Fattah Jr. told the court that the government had gotten it wrong.
That argument clearly went nowhere.
U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III ordered that the congressman's son be immediately taken into custody. He was hauled away while his father, U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), his mother, and a sister sat in the gallery.
Earlier, the younger Fattah, acting as his own attorney, as he had at trial last fall, argued during an hour-long sentencing hearing that the government had misinterpreted things, had improperly gotten the media involved in his life, and had ruined his life.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/20160203_Chip_Fattah_to_be_sentenced_today.html