Philadelphia police oversight chair charged with bribery, intimidation

The chair of Philadelphia’s Citizens Police Oversight Commission is facing bribery, witness intimidation and other charges after prosecutors said he provided another man with sensitive information about witnesses in a domestic violence-related attempted murder case.

Hassan Bennett, who also works for the Public Defender’s Office, allegedly provided unredacted criminal case documents to Thomas Scott, an inmate accused of attempting to intimidate a witness in a domestic violence-related attempted murder case, prosecutors said…

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