{"id":7146,"date":"2017-05-01T12:03:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2017-05-01T12:03:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:03:23","slug":"philadelphia-da-seth-williams-set-may-31-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/05\/01\/philadelphia-da-seth-williams-set-may-31-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia DA Seth Williams set for May 31 trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"dateline\">PHILADELPHIA (AP)<\/strong> &#8211; Philadelphia&#8217;s top prosecutor intends to push federal prosecutors to trial in a 23-count bribery case just two months after his arrest.<\/p>\n<div>District Attorney Seth Williams&#8217; lawyers tell a judge they&#8217;ll be ready for the May 31 trial.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That unusual strategy comes after U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond denied a routine government request for more time to prepare.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The trial date will apparently hold unless prosecutors file an expanded indictment.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Williams is charged with taking more than $100,000 in cash, trips and gifts from favor-seekers and misusing $20,000 of his elderly mother&#8217;s funds.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He admits taking $175,000 in gifts during his eight-year tenure but says he never promised any legal favors in return.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 50-year-old Democrat remains in the $175,000-a-year post but is not running for a third term.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/251875073-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fox29<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">PHILADELPHIA (AP) &#8211; Philadelphia&#8217;s top prosecutor intends to push federal prosecutors to trial in a 23-count bribery case just two months after his arrest. District Attorney Seth Williams&#8217; lawyers tell a judge they&#8217;ll be ready <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/05\/01\/philadelphia-da-seth-williams-set-may-31-trial\/\" title=\"Philadelphia DA Seth Williams set for May 31 trial\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[3407],"class_list":{"0":"post-7146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-da-seth-williams","10":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7151,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions\/7151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}