Education
Temple University.
Temple University.
He served non-consecutive terms representing District 1 on Philadelphia City Council. He resigned from his first term in 1984 to run for a seat in the First Congressional District of Pennsylvania, challenging incumbent Thomas Foglietta. He resigned from his second term after pleading guilty to racketeering, mail-fraud, taxevasion and obstruction-of-justice charges.
He spent 40 months in prison.
He is the 7th council member to be indicted since 1972. He was also editor, publisher, and photographer for the Public Record, a weekly newspaper.