Ex-Democratic representative and convicted felon Chaka Fattah received a 10-year prison sentence Monday after being found guilty of federal racketeering and bribery charges earlier this year.
Prosecutors had sought as many as 21 years for the longtime Pennsylvania lawmaker, who ran afoul of the law when he took an illegal $1 campaign million loan for his failed run for Philadelphia mayor in 2007. Philly’s WPVI-TV has more:
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