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More Democrat Corruption as FBI agents arrest Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld early Thursday on federal charges. Sittenfeld is accused of accepting bribes in exchange for favorable votes on development deals.
It looks like Sittenfeld’s run for mayor next year will not be happening as his arrest makes him the third member of the city’s nine member council to be arrested this year and is accused of bribery, wire fraud, attempted extortion and faces up to 20 years in prison if he’s convicted.
The Enquirer Cincinnati reports:
Diane Menashe, Sittenfeld’s attorney, entered a not guilty plea on his behalf in federal court Thursday afternoon.
Elected to council in 2011, Sittenfeld has amassed a campaign war chest of more than $710,000 on his way to becoming one of the city’s most popular and powerful politicians.
The charges against Sittenfeld, outlined in an indictment unsealed shortly after his arrest, accuse him of orchestrating a scheme to funnel money from developers into a political action committee (PAC) that he secretly controlled. According to the indictment, the developers were actually undercover FBI agents who handed Sittenfeld checks totaling $40,000 on three different occasions in 2018 and 2019.
The indictment states Sittenfeld solicited the money in exchange for his support of a plan to develop the former Convention Place Mall at 435 Elm St., which Cincinnati developer Chinedum Ndukwe, a former Bengals player, sought to develop as a hotel and office complex with sports betting.
Sittenfeld, 36, did not pocket the cash himself, the indictment states, but instead funneled it into the PAC, which he is not legally permitted to oversee himself. He also made clear in conversations with the undercover agents how they should donate the money, how much they should donate and what they could expect in return, federal prosecutors said.
“It’s all part of one scheme,” said U.S. Attorney David DeVillers, who will lead the prosecution of Sittenfeld. “The promises, the accepting of cash, the hiding of where it’s coming from.”
The entitlement of some elected officials and blatant disregard for the law is so bad it’s almost as if they can’t understand why they would be held accountable for their actions.
Full story at The Enquirer Cincinnati.
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More Democrat Corruption as FBI agents arrest Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld early Thursday on federal charges. Sittenfeld is accused of accepting bribes in exchange for favorable votes on development deals.
It looks like Sittenfeld’s run for mayor next year will not be happening as his arrest makes him the third member of the city’s nine member council to be arrested this year and is accused of bribery, wire fraud, attempted extortion and faces up to 20 years in prison if he’s convicted.
The Enquirer Cincinnati reports:
Diane Menashe, Sittenfeld’s attorney, entered a not guilty plea on his behalf in federal court Thursday afternoon.
Elected to council in 2011, Sittenfeld has amassed a campaign war chest of more than $710,000 on his way to becoming one of the city’s most popular and powerful politicians.
The charges against Sittenfeld, outlined in an indictment unsealed shortly after his arrest, accuse him of orchestrating a scheme to funnel money from developers into a political action committee (PAC) that he secretly controlled. According to the indictment, the developers were actually undercover FBI agents who handed Sittenfeld checks totaling $40,000 on three different occasions in 2018 and 2019.
The indictment states Sittenfeld solicited the money in exchange for his support of a plan to develop the former Convention Place Mall at 435 Elm St., which Cincinnati developer Chinedum Ndukwe, a former Bengals player, sought to develop as a hotel and office complex with sports betting.
Sittenfeld, 36, did not pocket the cash himself, the indictment states, but instead funneled it into the PAC, which he is not legally permitted to oversee himself. He also made clear in conversations with the undercover agents how they should donate the money, how much they should donate and what they could expect in return, federal prosecutors said.
“It’s all part of one scheme,” said U.S. Attorney David DeVillers, who will lead the prosecution of Sittenfeld. “The promises, the accepting of cash, the hiding of where it’s coming from.”
The entitlement of some elected officials and blatant disregard for the law is so bad it’s almost as if they can’t understand why they would be held accountable for their actions.
Full story at The Enquirer Cincinnati.