Chaka “Chip” Fattah Jr. can move forward with his lawsuit alleging a federal agent improperly alerted the press that the FBI and IRS would be raiding his marketing business, a federal judge has ruled.
Fattah Jr., currently serving a five-year prison sentence for bank fraud, claimed a federal agent contacted the media before notifying his lawyer of the pre-dawn Feb. 29, 2012, raid. The ensuing media coverage included articles and photos of agents serving him search warrants and confiscating a computer at his office located in a small Center City law firm, all of which Fattah Jr. said damaged his reputation and cost him his job.
