WPVI.com provides an Associated Press report on Philadelphia Councilman Frank DiCicco’s polygraph examination as well as a RealPlayer video file with reporter Dann Cuellar’s news story. Excerpt from the Associated Press report:
PHILADELPHIA – February 19, 2002 –
Maybe Frank DiCicco should start raising campaign funds on ABC’s “The Chair.” DiCicco, a Philadelphia councilman, seems to relish high-pressure test questions with the glare of TV cameras, money on the line and a few electrodes thrown in for fun.
“I may be changing my position on capital punishment,” DiCicco joked as a private investigator strapped wires to his chest and hands in preparation for a lie-detector test Tuesday that was sponsored by the Philadelphia Daily News.
DiCicco had put himself on the hot seat, so to speak, by alleging that a rival on council insulted Irish-Americans in a closed-door meeting over redistricting. Results of the first lie detector were inconclusive, but the test was taken again on Tuesday night and showed DiCicco was telling the truth, according to the paper.
The alleged speaker, who is half-Irish, denied debasing his people. “It never happened,” Richard Mariano said. “I got my way on redistricting and he didn’t.”
The results from the second test taken late Tuesday night showed that DiCicco had been telling the truth, said Kurt Heine, the newspaper’s city editor. “Now we know he’s telling the truth,” Heine said.