{"id":37611,"date":"2020-11-20T12:35:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=37611"},"modified":"2020-11-20T12:35:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T16:35:15","slug":"cincinnati-democrat-arrested-for-accepting-bribes-in-exchange-for-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=37611","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Democrat Arrested For Accepting Bribes in Exchange For Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>FBI Agents Arrest Cincinnati Democrat For Accepting Bribes in Exchange For Votes<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Cristina Laila<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-556480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"397\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6678.jpg\" \/><em>P.G. Sittenfeld<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FBI agents on Thursday arrested Cincinnati Democrat City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld for accepting bribes in exchange for votes.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s arrest of Sittenfeld marks the third arrest on the city council this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=cristinalaila1&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1329456083681865733&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2020%2F11%2Ffbi-agents-arrest-cincinnati-democrat-accepting-bribes-exchange-votes%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1329456083681865733\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Fox19\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox19.com\/2020\/11\/19\/cincinnati-city-councilman-pg-sittenfeld-arrested-federal-corruption-charges-source-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charges unveiled against Sittenfeld in his 20-page indictment allege he schemed to funnel money from developers into a political action committee (PAC) that he secretly controlled, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdevelopers\u201d were really undercover FBI agents who handed a total of $40,000 in Sittenfeld checks on three different occasions, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Sittenfeld, who could not be immediately reached for comment, is running to be Cincinnati\u2019s mayor and considered by some as the front runner with thousands of dollars raised for his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He is now the third Cincinnati City Councilmember to be arrested on corruption charges this year and the second in the past week alone.<\/p>\n<p>Federal authorities recently revealed in court records they were investigating corruption and bribery related to votes and development projects and said more prosecution were coming.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney David DeVillers said at a news conference last week that accepting campaign donations in exchange for favors also violates federal law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/11\/fbi-agents-arrest-cincinnati-democrat-accepting-bribes-exchange-votes\/\">https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/11\/fbi-agents-arrest-cincinnati-democrat-accepting-bribes-exchange-votes\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Agents Arrest Cincinnati Democrat For Accepting Bribes in Exchange For Votes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}