John Perzel, a former speaker of the House and Philadelphia powerbroker, has been charged along with nine others for overseeing a scheme that allegedly funneled more than $10 million in taxpayer money to fund complicated campaign software programs and attempting to prevent state investigators from continuing their investigation, Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett announced Thursday.
The series of allegations, laid out in a nearly hourlong press conference, comes some 17 months after Corbett originally announced charges against House Democrats for using public funds to pay staffers for campaign work in the investigation that has become known as “Bonusgate.”
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