PHILADELPHIA — Although trial witnesses say a once-powerful state senator got vehicles, office space, staff help, tools, vacuums and other goodies from a South Philadelphia charity run by loyal underlings, ex-state Sen. Vincent Fumo told an interviewer in 2004 that he received nothing from the group.

"I don't get any money for it. I don't get any benefits from it," Fumo said of his ties to Citizens Alliance for Better Neighborhoods, to which he steered millions in state grants and corporate donations.

Fumo, in the Jan. 29, 2004 "Radio Times" interview, also told host Marty Moss-Coane he had been surprised to learn the nonprofit was picking up his trash. He said he had immediately started reimbursing the group $100 a month for the service.

But an FBI agent testified at Fumo's corruption trial Thursday that the Democratic power broker wrote the first $100 check for trash services on Jan. 30, 2004 — the day after the radio interview.

Fumo, 65, who left office last year after a 30-year Senate career, is charged in a 139-count indictment with defrauding Citizens Alliance, the senate and the Independence Seaport Museum of more than $3.5 million.

Prosecution witnesses over 11 weeks have detailed countless luxuries, from $900 vacuums to $25,000 yacht trips, that Fumo allegedly received gratis from the victim groups. Many of the items were ultimately funded by a state grant to Citizens Alliance, the FBI agent said Thursday.