Trevor Schakohl
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Bobby Henon, a former Philadelphia City Councilman, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison Wednesday for fraud, bribery, and conspiracy, NBC 10 Philadelphia reported.
The Eastern Pennsylvania U.S. Attorney’s Office reported that Henon aided then-International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 Business Manager John Dougherty’s interests during his tenure on the city council, receiving a salary and other valuables from the union official. Dougherty was convicted of honest services fraud conspiracy and honest services wire fraud in 2021, while Henon was found guilty of bribery and conspiracy to commit honest services fraud in 2021.
Henon did not resign until January 2022, after his conviction, NBC 10 reported. His sentence includes a $50,000 fine, three years of supervised release and 100 community service hours.
Dougherty has not yet been sentenced, according to KYW. A judge announced in January that Dougherty’s separate federal trial for embezzlement was rescheduled for April, while his additional federal trial for allegedly threatening a union contractor who tried to fire his nephew was expected to start in September, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Former Local 98 political director Marita Crawford, the union’s longtime apprentice training program leader Michael Neill and two former Dougherty assistants entered guilty pleas in December on charges related to the embezzlement case, in which Dougherty and others allegedly stole more than $600,000 from the union, according to the outlet. “I don’t think the case is all that complicated, frankly,” Local 98 president Brian Burrows’ lawyer Thomas Bergstrom said in January.
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