by Olivia Rondeau at The Post Millennial
Disgraced former Democratic US Congressman Michael “Ozzie” Myers, 79, was sentenced to another 30 months in prison Tuesday, along with three years of supervised release and $100,000 in fines, after pleading guilty to “conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election, and for orchestrating schemes to fraudulently stuff the ballot boxes,” according to a press release from the US Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
In June 2022, the former congressman admitted in court to “bribing the Judge of Elections for the 39th Ward, 36th Division in South Philadelphia in a fraudulent scheme over several years,” as well as bribing the election official “to illegally add votes for certain candidates of their mutual political party in primary elections,” said US Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero.
According to Romero, Myers stuffed boxes for fellow Democrats in the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 state elections.
“Some of these candidates were individuals running for judicial office whose campaigns had hired Myers, and others were candidates for various federal, state, and local elective offices that Myers favored for a variety of reasons,” the press release stated. “Myers would solicit payments from his clients in the form of cash or checks as ‘consulting fees,’ and then use portions of these funds to pay election officials to tamper with election results.”
Myers’ attorneys — Noah Gorson and Arnold R. Silverstein — urged…
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