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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Hour 1
John Perzel, a Republican state representative from Northeast Philadelphia, was House Speaker for four years earlier this decade, and was one of the most powerful politicians in Pennsylvania for longer. But last week, he was indicted, along with nine others, in the Harrisburg corruption scandal that's come to be known as "Bonusgate." Attorney General Tom Corbett, who's controversially also running for the Republican nomination for the 2010 governors race, charged Perzel with allegedly masterminding a complicated scheme that took taxpayer money and spent it on software that was used for Republican campaigns. Perzell also allegedly directed automated "robo" calls against members of his own party who had defied his orders.
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