Street Computer Seized (Philadelphia mayoral race) [View All]

[Pale Blue Dot]

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/6976800.htm

The day a bug was found in Mayor Street's office, federal authorities confiscated the mayor's handheld computer as part of their wide-ranging probe into possible corruption in City Hall.

FBI agents sought the BlackBerry computer hours after Philadelphia police, in a sweep of the mayor's office, discovered a sophisticated listening device and two microphones that the FBI had planted in the ceiling of Street's City Hall office.

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Meanwhile, news surfaced yesterday of an FBI raid of another politically connected firm: the accounting office of Jeanice M. Salter, who has kept the books for some of the city's leading political figures and also for politically active nonprofits. The raid occurred Wednesday, the same day agents raided the offices of a small financial firm run by two Street supporters.

Though Street continued to sound a note of vindication yesterday, stressing that he was not a "target" of the investigation, the revelation about his BlackBerry is another sign that the mayor himself may be a focus of a wide-ranging federal probe into corruption in city contracts.

If there is nothing to this, it is an obvious politically motivated attack on Street. If there IS something to this, then the Republicans are about to get another major US office.:-(