PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) —
Action News reporter Dann Cuellar spoke exclusively to two men Thursday night who have a lot to say about the Johnny Doc and Bobby Henon charges.
Former City Councilman Rick Mariano is the last Philadelphia councilman to have been convicted and went to prison.
The other is Vince Fumo, a once powerful State Senator and once a big rival of John Dougherty in the quest to wrestle political power in Pennsylvania.
“My phones been ringing off the hook with people that are overjoyed because John made an awful lot of enemies,” said Vince Fumo, Former State Senator.
Fumo says for years, they suspected something was amiss at Local 98 and couldn’t understand how John Dougherty was getting away with it.
“For years, people thought John was a confidential informant for the feds,” said Fumo.
His thoughts that the indictments allege Dougherty urged Henon to push the soda tax as revenge against the Teamsters because he thought they were making him look bad.
“That’s the kind of ego John has, he’s very vindictive, he’s very power hungry,” added…
