Gee, who would have guessed he would do that?
Via Philly.com:
A federal judge on Wednesday called U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah’s decision to prioritize fund-raising for his reelection campaign above paying his lawyers “particularly unfair” but denied a request from his defense team to withdraw from his corruption case.
U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III said that though the lawyers had not been fully paid in months, they were aware of the time and financial commitments when they signed on to Fattah’s case.
They ran a risk when they did not require the Philadelphia Democrat to pay their legal fees up front, Bartle wrote in an opinion. Allowing Fattah time to retain new counsel would likely delay his May 2 trial by months, the judge said.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160128_Judge_denies_Fattah_lawyers__bid_to_withdraw_from_criminal_defense.html#1wlBdHQDyQdWl7td.99