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Welcome to Fumogation! It’s where City Paper covers Philadelphia’s trial of the century, also known as the United States of America v. The Honorable Vincent J. Fumo, the richest, palest, and most powerful Mensa-member to ever grace the ranks of the ACLU, NRA, and Pennsylvania legislature.

For the next several months, Fumogation will report on the trial’s breaking news and political theater while the feds bear down on South Philly’s favorite son with 139 counts of wrongdoing. We’ll bring it all to you with courtroom news via our Twitter feed (which you can read on the main blog) and longer posts that analyze what, exactly, all those clever lawyers are saying and who all those government witnesses are.

The fun begins Monday morning with jury selection, when 200 unsuspecting people will find themselves on the game show “who wants to judge a state Senator?” It’ll take about a week to declare the winners. Actual arguments should kick off around Sept. 15.

So check in every day, send us your ideas, and comment like this is the last trial you’ll ever care about. Because honestly, it pretty much is.

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