May 19, 2020
A Pennsylvania federal judge said on Monday it wouldn't be right for him to release Allentown, Pennsylvania's former mayor from prison amid the coronavirus pandemic, but noted the Bureau of Prisons could do so if it sees fit.
May 12, 2020
A Pennsylvania federal judge and an attorney for the convicted ex-mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania, sparred during a hearing Tuesday over the court's authority to grant a motion aimed at temporarily releasing the onetime elected official from prison due to his high risk of complications from a potential COVID-19 infection.
May 08, 2020
Federal prosecutors urged a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday to reject former Allentown Mayor Edwin Pawlowski's bid for release from prison during the coronavirus pandemic, saying it would be "plainly inappropriate" to let him out only 18 months into a 15-year sentence.
May 05, 2020
Citing serious health problems including a procedure during which one of his lungs was removed, the disgraced former mayor of Pennsylvania's third-largest city urged a federal judge on Tuesday to allow him to continue serving his 15-year bribery sentence at home as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread.
October 23, 2018
Former Allentown, Pennsylvania, Mayor Edwin Pawlowski was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Tuesday following his conviction for soliciting donations from vendors for an ultimately ill-fated U.S. Senate campaign in exchange for promises of lucrative city business.
June 29, 2018
An ex-Norris McLaughlin & Marcus PA partner was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison on Friday after being found guilty on bribery and conspiracy charges for attempting to land legal work for his firm with promises of campaign contributions to the now-convicted mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
June 25, 2018
Evidence of a general promise of future city legal work in exchange for campaign contributions to the now-convicted former mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was not enough to convict ex-Norris McLaughlin & Marcus PA partner Scott Allinson for bribery, a federal judge heard Monday.
May 02, 2018
A business consultant and attorney was sentenced to a year and a half in federal prison Wednesday after copping to charges in connection with two separate pay-to-play schemes in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown and Reading.
April 27, 2018
Federal prosecutors are urging a judge to sentence an attorney and political consultant to 18 months in prison after he copped to charges in connection with two separate pay-to-play schemes in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown and Reading.
March 01, 2018
A Pennsylvania federal jury on Thursday convicted the mayor of the state's third-largest city on most charges alleging he solicited campaign donations from law firms and vendors with the promises of lucrative government contracts, as well as an attorney who donated, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.