Dots Connected
Nov 27th, 2006 at 9:07 am by Susie
Let’s see. Pat Meehan 1) goes after Philadelphia corruption and 2) has a form of regional amnesia regarding the corrupt GOP suburban pols who put him in power, and the Inquirer wonders why? Gee, you don’t suppose the Republicans are going to put Pat Meehan up for Arlen Specter’s Senate seat, do you?
One question embedded in discussions of the probes is why U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan has been so actively going after Philadelphia politicians.
Meehan says when he came into the job in November 2001, he made public corruption a priority, and he notes that success in public-corruption cases tends to bring in more information about alleged wrongdoing.
“When it occurs to people involved in the [political] process that something will actually be done, they’re more likely to bring issues to our attention,” Meehan said.
Meehan has also gone after politicians in Norristown and elsewhere.
His efforts in the suburbs have been quite low-key and when his Commerce Bank investigation tuned up the name of Charlie Sexton (who you may also remember as the business partner of Curt Weldon’s daughter), it seemed to sort of … peter off. Hmmm.
