HARRISBURG — Defense attorneys are trying to sink the state’s case against former state Rep. Mike Veon before it even begins.
The trial scheduled to begin Tuesday centers around some 60,000 e-mail messages purporting to show that political work was done on state time and that more than $1 million in tax dollars were distributed as bonuses to compensate staffers for campaign work.
“Defendant Veon objects to the blanket introduction of potentially tens of thousands of e-mail documents which have not been properly authenticated,” defense attorneys Joel Sansone and Daniel Raynak wrote in a brief filed yesterday in Dauphin County Common Pleas Court.
They argue that there is no way to document the authenticity of the e-mail messages and have concerns that the evidence was supplied by state Rep. Bill DeWeese, who they call a co-conspirator in the bonus scheme.
Tags: Bill DeWeese, Bonusgate, Mike Veon
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