Former Philadelphia Traffic Court Judge Michael J. Sullivan’s guilty plea for paying employees of his bar under the table was supposed to be entered in federal court Tuesday morning, but the federal judge presiding in the case had other ideas.
Even after Sullivan announced his plea, U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania apparently had an issue with what he viewed as unanswered questions in the prosecutors’ case against Sullivan, centered on why the accountant for the Fireside Tavern in South Philadelphia had not been considered an accomplice in the case. Robreno subsequently ordered the proceedings be put off for 30 days.
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