Rendell At The Chaka Trial: "A Horrible Prosecutorial Overreach"
The Philadelphia Inquirer/Ed Hille
By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
The way Ed Rendell tells the story, Herb Vederman came to him for advice.
"He wanted to get back into city government," Rendell explained on the witness stand about Vederman, a rich guy who served for years as Rendell's unpaid deputy mayor for economic development.
At the time, five Democr…