Daily News | Ex-Philly Councilmember Bobby Henon sentenced to 3 1/2 years in union bribery case
on 10 counts including conspiracy, bribery, and honest services fraud, finding that the $70,000 annual salary Local 98 continued to pay him once he was on Council amounted to a bribe.— sweeping Henon into office on a wave of Local 98 money and manpower and then using the union paycheck to control him, allowing the labor leader to corruptly bend Philadelphia’s government to his will.
And as Local 98 and Comcast feuded in 2016 over the amount of work the cable giant was sending the union’s way,with the city. “This kind of corruption tears at the fabric of our democracy, which is about the people believing that their elected representative work for them and not other private interests they might have a public deal with,” she said.
“As a result of this verdict now and forever, when people Google Robert Henon’s name they won’t say he was one of the hardest working city councilmen the city has ever seen,” McMonagle said. “Instead, it will say, that he resigned his office as a convicted felon. That would be enough … to bring a good man to his knees.”
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