Federal prosecutors rested their bribery case against Philadelphia City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson and his wife, Dawn Chavous, paving the way for the couple to begin presenting their side of the story for the jury that will decide their fate.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday rested their bribery case against Philadelphia City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson and his wife, Dawn Chavous, paving the way for the couple to begin presenting their side of the story for the jury that will ultimately decide their fate.
Rather, Egan and attorneys for the others have said the alleged scheme had been wholly imagined by the FBI special agent who investigated the case and under a consulting contract with Universal that he said was meant to hide its purported payoff to Johnson.“Correlation does not equal causation,” said Egan. He accused prosecutors of putting Chavous’ work during her contract with Universal “under a magnifying glass” to decide “whether they think it was adequate enough.”
“No rational jury would look at the sole word of one agent,” added Elizabeth Casey, a lawyer for Chavous. But McHugh said that while the defense had shown that Chavous did some work for Universal with “an email here, an email there,” it was still possible for jurors to conclude that she did “relatively minimal work” based on the evidence presented so far.
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