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Johnny Doc threatened to ‘beat up,’ ‘run over’ and put potential witnesses ‘under the water’ after indictment, feds say

"The first time you get up, the second time I run you over," Dougherty allegedly told a room full of potential witnesses, prosecutors say, in a 2020 speech secretly recorded by an FBI informant.

Former labor leader John Dougherty enters the federal courthouse in Center City on Monday for proceedings in his federal union embezzlement trial.
Former labor leader John Dougherty enters the federal courthouse in Center City on Monday for proceedings in his federal union embezzlement trial.Read moreAlejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer