8th Ward Dems Tell Feds Farnese Didn't Have To Buy Votes
By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
A Democratic committeeman from the 8th Ward got his dander up today when a prosecutor asked if state Senator Larry Farnese had offered him money in exchange for his vote to make Farnese ward leader.
"Don't be silly," Sam Hopkins, a 20-year veteran of the ward, yelled at Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Kravis on cross-exa…