Daily News | Former South Philly elections judge spared prison after conviction for faking votes
like Beren to add dozens of false votes for candidates he supported in the district he formerly represented.
As prosecutors told it, it was Myers — a fallen political boss with outsized influence in his neighborhood — who first recruited Beren, a high school dropout, into politics in the 1980s. She eventually landed jobs with the Philadelphia School District and working in constituent services for City Council, most recently for Squilla.
Beren also acknowledged letting voters at the polling place cast ballots for relatives who didn’t plan to vote, and she encouraged them to support Myers’ candidates.
And yet, when the FBI showed up asking questions about her involvement in Myers’ illegal voting scheme, she confessed and agreed to cooperate almost immediately, Gibson, the prosecutor, told the court.
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