Philly DA: Police Oversight Commission chair sold confidential case info through public defender job – Audacy

Philly DA: Police Oversight Commission chair sold confidential case info through public defender job  Audacy

Hassan Bennett, chair of the Philadelphia Citizens Police Oversight Commission, was arrested on bribery charges in connection with selling confidential information he obtained through his job as a bail navigator at the public defender’s office. | KYW Newsradio PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The chair of the Philadelphia Citizens Police Oversight Commission was arrested on bribery charges Tuesday morning. Hassan Bennett, 43, faces charges in connection with selling confidential information about criminal cases, which he obtained through his job as a bail navigator at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office said in a press conference Tuesday afternoon. The DA's Office accused Bennett of selling confidential information to a defendant in a domestic violence case.

Assistant District Attorney Joe Lanuti alleged Bennett provided that information to Thomas Scott, an inmate who was publicly attempting to intimidate a witness in a domestic attempted murder case. "He was placing recorded prison calls," said Lanuti. "During one of these calls, investigators heard Hassan Bennett reading the arrest report of the attempted murder case to Scott." At the conclusion of the call, prosecutors said they heard Scott tell Bennett he would provide him "a nickel." A source also told KYW Newsradio that Bennett nearly lost his job a few years ago for a similar incident. Bennett has been on the Citizens Police