“A jury on Monday found Philadelphia union leader John Dougherty and City Councilmember Bobby Henon guilty of federal bribery charges — a decision likely to send both men to prison and seismically upend politics and organized labor in the city for years,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
“The convictions will cost both men their jobs, and in Dougherty’s case, end his nearly three decades as a one-man center of gravity at the helm of Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers — a tenure in which he transformed the union into one of Philadelphia’s most effective advocates for workers and a political powerhouse that propelled dozens of allies into statewide and local office.”
