Key figure in Philly bugging probe now top Cain aide

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Key figure in Philly bugging probe now top Cain aide | Philadelphia Daily News | 11/17/2011

A KEY FIGURE in the Philadelphia corruption probe of the Street administration in the early 2000s has resurfaced as a high-ranking aide to GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain.
Jamie Brazil, a longtime Scranton political consultant and wheeler-dealer, was never charged with a crime in the high-profile investigation. But a watchdog group essentially barred Brazil from the securities industry in 2006, after he tried to invoke the Fifth Amendment rather than answer questions about his work for two municipal-bond firms.

During the corruption probe, federal wiretaps also showed that Brazil sought business on behalf of a well-known Philadelphia Muslim cleric later convicted on charges of racketeering, commercial bribery, multiple frauds and income-tax fraud, and sentenced to seven years in jail.

Cain knows how to pick them.