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That’s what a federal jury will decide about City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson, based on the first day of the federal trial of him and his wife, Dawn Chavous.
Prosecutors painted Chavous and Johnson — a three-term member of Council — as a South Philadelphia “power couple” who lived beyond their means and greedily lined their pockets with bribe money from a struggling nonprofit while ignoring constituent concerns. “Kenyatta Johnson and Dawn Chavous were willing to sell Johnson’s elected office,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Gibson said. “They did so, providing official acts, legislation, votes and intervention in exchange for a series of payments totaling nearly $67,000. In lawyer-speak [that’s] quid pro quo corruption.”
But the duo’s lawyers, in their opening pitch, balked at the government’s contention that $67,000 the organization paid Chavous through consulting contracts between 2013 and 2016 was meant as a payoff to her husband. Our reporters Jeremy Roebuck and Oona Goodin-Smith detail more of the backstory and the other arguments in yesterday’s opening of
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