A former member of the Filadelphia City Council Bobby Henon, who served 3.5 years in prison for bribery in a federal prison in Central Pennsylvania, was moved on Tuesday home halfway to take the rest of his term, according to his lawyer.
Brian McMonagle, who represented Henon during the trial in 2021, said that Henon was moved from the federal prison institution in Lewisburg home in the middle of the house in Philadelphia at the end of Tuesday. McMonagle said he wasn’t sure how long Henon would be in the fresh facility before he started taking a three -year term of supervised dismissal.
The Bureau of Prisons website has not updated the status of Henon’s care from Tuesday evening, but on Wednesday it recorded a transfer to the Field Residential Management Management Field Field Philadelphia office. The site was found that the expected date of the premiere of Henon was August 23, but federal prisoners are not unusual that half of the houses in the middle of time facilitate the transition from care.
Henon, a democrat, who at some point served as the leader of the majority of the city council, was convicted over three years ago for federal allegations of bribery after the jury stated that he sold the rights of his office to the former Labor Party leader John Dougherty in exchange for a USD 70,000 per year.
Prosecutors said that after choosing Henon in 2011, Dougherty kept him on the payroll of his politically powerful relationship, the local 98 international brotherhood of electrical workers to bring the benefits of the Union and Dougherty, which for decades in the town hall was perceived as a one-man Kingmaker king with an comprehensive list of desires for the enemy.
Henon and Dougherty Long insisted that they would not commit any crimes. Rather, they argued that their relationship during the implementation of the Pro-Labor Agenda did not differ from other politicians whose policy adapted to donors or other influential supporters.
But the jury disagreed, and the judge who sentenced Henon, US Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl, said that the case against him “revealed a dirty lower abdomen about how politics in Philadelphia works.”
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“The inhabitants of Philadelphia thought they were choosing a councilor,” said Schmehl at Henon’s trial in 2023. “But instead they chose a servant for John Dougherty and the local 98. Apparently not what the city was torn behind.”
Henon told the judge that he did not see his trade union with a bribe, but he added: “I tried to help every Philadelphia, especially those who were defenseless and needed. The first interesting interest of my relationship, I disappointed you. “
Henon appealed against the sentence, but the Federal Court of Appeal ruled against him last year.
Meanwhile, Dougherty was sentenced last year to six years behind bars – the result of his beliefs regarding bribery and separate prosecution of embezzlement. He is trapped in Lewisburg.
McMonagle, Henon’s lawyer, said he was “excited”, that Henon “returned to Philadelphia to take the rest of the sentence.”
