Tony Romeo reports for KYW news radio. This short article from the KYW website is cited here in full:
Results are inconclusive following a lie detector test administered to a Philadelphia city councilman who accused another councilman of an ethnic slur
The spat between First District councilman Frank DiCicco and Seventh District councilman Richard Mariano stems from the bitter dispute over council redistricting.
In a December meeting in Mayor Street’s office, DiCicco alleges that Mariano called some residents of Kensington’s 31st ward “trailer park Irish trash.” Mariano denies it.
Enter the Daily News. A la mayor Frank Rizzo in 1973, the paper arranged for DiCicco to take a polygraph test.
But the results of the test are inconclusive. City editor Kurt Heine says the polygraph operator asked the operative question three different ways:
“In this case, each time he asked the question, the results stayed in a range that were inconclusive. It didn’t go the positive or the negative that would allow him to make a conclusion.”
But it’s not over yet. Heine says DiCicco has agreed to another polygraph test.