The US Supreme Court on Monday overturned the criminal judgment against a former Cincinnati councilman who was later pardoned by President Donald Trump for his bribery convictions.
The justices, in a two-sentence unsigned order, sent P.G. Sittenfeld’s case back to the Sixth Circuit for further consideration in light of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio’s November request to dismiss the underlying indictment against him.
A jury found Sittenfeld, once a rising star in the Ohio Democratic Party, guilty in 2022 of bribery and attempted extortion by a government official after he took $20,000 from undercover ...