Chris Palmer
Reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Criminal justice reporter at the @PhillyInquirer. I don't really tweet (X?) anymore. cpalmer(at)inquirer(dot)com
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6 days ago |
lancasteronline.com | Chris Palmer
Apr. 17—A former bodybuilder and reputed Mafia associate who served as a debt collector for a now-defunct Philadelphia-based lending company was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal prison for using loan shark-style threats as he sought to collect overdue funds from customers. Renato "Gino" Gioe, 57, was an enforcer for Par Funding, the former Old City firm that offered quick loans at high interest rates to borrowers deemed too risky to secure financing from traditional banks.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Chris Palmer
A former bodybuilder and reputed Mafia associate who served as a debt collector for a now-defunct Philadelphia-based lending company was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal prison for using loan-shark style threats as he sought to collect overdue funds from customers. Renato “Gino” Gioe, 57, was an enforcer for Par Funding, the former Old City firm that offered quick loans at high interest rates to borrowers deemed too risky to secure financing from traditional banks.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Chris Palmer
One of the most prolific contract killers in recent Philadelphia history was ordered Wednesday to spend decades in prison for taking part in seven murders in 13 months — crimes authorities say he committed for cash while sometimes working with associates of a drug kingpin. But moments after Common Pleas Court Judge Rose Marie DeFino-Nastasi imposed the 40-to-80 year sentence against Steven Williams, spectators in the packed courtroom gallery erupted in anger.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Chris Palmer
Moments after a group of men burst into Demetrius Jones’ jail cell trying to steal his belongings, they began punching and kicking him as he lay on the ground, breaking his eye socket and leaving his face swollen and bruised. And when a corrections officer, Ivory Cousins, finally responded to the melee inside Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, Jones — who was jailed on drug charges — said the guard didn’t call for help or seek to get him medical treatment.
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1 week ago |
gazettextra.com | Chris Palmer
PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia's jail population has reached its lowest level in recent memory - the result of a behind-the-scenes effort that has quietly reduced the number of people incarcerated in city-run facilities by more than 20% over the past six months. Fewer than 3,700 people were in city custody as of this week, according to data from the Philadelphia Department of Prisons - the lowest tally in at least a decade, and more than 50% lower than the 8,000 people who were jailed in 2015.
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