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In prison in his federal corruption case. The philadelphia democrat must surrender by january 25 to start serving his time. Katherine scott spoke is to fattah and joins us live from center city. Reporter rick and sarah, chaka fattah left the courtroom after being sentenced to ten years in prison. He expressed gratitude toward family and friends reiterating that when he addressed the court in sentencing. The proceeding happened inside the courtroom. The courtroom was packed. Lets go to video of the former pennsylvania corningman leaving the court congressman leaving the courthouse, he was convicted on racketeering conspiracy and money laundrying. The judge said whats so astonishing the extent and duration of the criminal conduct that he abused the trust placed in him time and time again. He was sentenced to ten years and ordered to pay 600,000 in in restitution. He got below the sentencing guidelines. The lawyer argued it was not a hiccup, but not a moment in time, but moment after mome ....
That see only the negative and theres a lot of positives going on here and i hope, i hope that that is seen and thought about. He still has work left undone so we need him to be table reply Enter Society as soon as possible so he can continue to pay it forward relative to the lives he has wrote touch. Reporter fat is a at as wife left Court Without comment. Federal prosecutors that had called for 17 to more than 20s years in prison for fattah. But the judge obviously chose to impose far less than that. Today chaka fattah was sentenced to 10 years in prison and thats a significant sentence. Reporter sharrie, in addition to 10 years behind bars, mr. Fattah will have to pay over 600,000 in restitution to the agencies he ripped off. He remains free on bail until january 26th. Then he must surrender to federal authorities t live at the federal courthouse in center city, im vernon od ....
Are going to disadvantage democrats but the truth of the matter is that if we have a strong message, if were speak to go what the American People care about, typically the popular vote and the Electoral College will align and i guess part of my overall message here as i leave for the holidays is that if we looked for one explanation or one silverbullet or one easy fix for politics, then were probably going to be disappointed. There are just a lot of factors in whats happened not just over the last few months but over the last decade that has made both politics and governance more challenging. And i think everybodys raised legitimate questions and legitimate concerns. I do hope that we all just take some time, take a breath, thats certainly what im going to advise democrats, to just reflect a little bit more about how can we how can we get to a place where people are focus ....
Sometimes are going to disadvantage democrats. But the truth of the matter is that if we have a strong message, if were speaking to what the American People care about, typically the popular vote and the Electoral College vote will align. And i guess part of my overall message here as i leave for the holidays is that if we look for one explanation or one Silver Bullet or one easy fix for our politics, then were probably going to be disappointed. There are just a lot of in whats happened, not just over the last few months but over the last decade that has made both politics and governance more challenging. And i think everybodys raised legitimate questions and legitimate concerns. I do hope that we all just take some time, take a breath. This is certainly what im going to advise democrats. To just reflect a little bit ....
Thank you for being here with a special thanks to the audience in the cspan world for joining us this even if is recorded by cspan thanks to the team to be here and joining us. I am the director of the Caribbean Center we are located at Florida International university here in miami and we have another campus where the center is located. The center that i direct is one of the institutes or programs of centers that the school of Public International affairs we are absolutely delighted to be hosting or coasting these events a thanks to the Chaplains School thanks for supporting this it is degraded to have on your campus. Also to the Cuban Research institute a little bit of why we are here last ye ....