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Philadelphia watchdog chair charged over witness information

Hassan Bennett, chair of Philadelphia’s Citizens Police Oversight Commission, faces charges over allegations that he sold a witness’s name and an unredacted arrest report to prison inmate Thomas Scott in an attempted-murder case. The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office said investigators heard Bennett read Scott details from the report during prison calls. Scott allegedly threatened to “blow down” the witness in broad daylight.

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