Former L&I chief testifies about threatening behavior by John Dougherty at labor leader’s bribery trial
“He said to me he could have me replaced,” Carlton Williams testified. “I took it as a … threat, and then pretty much asked why I was here.”
Union leader John Dougherty arrives at federal courthouse in Philadelphia Tuesday with members of the Philadelphia Building Trades Council.
The federal corruption trial of John Dougherty, a labor leader known widely as “Johnny Doc,” and City Councilmember Bobby Henon resumed Tuesday, the trial’s fifth day.
Carlton Williams, the former head of Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses & Inspections, testified about threatening behavior by Dougherty during a contentious 2015 meeting.
Last week prosecutors played wiretaps that showed Dougherty relied on Henon for help. Jurors also heard from witnesses involved in Dougherty’s efforts to stop nonunion contractors from installing MRI machines at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dougherty and Henon have denied the charges, which include conspiracy and honest services fraud.
Learn more about the case and the Philly political players and groups likely to come up during the trial, or catch up with day-by-day recaps of what’s happened so far.