February 27, 2018
Prosecutors urged a federal jury during closing arguments on Tuesday to find the mayor of Pennsylvania’s third-largest city guilty of soliciting campaign contributions from law firms and other vendors with promises of lucrative government contracts.
January 22, 2018
A federal prosecutor kicked off the corruption case against the mayor of Pennsylvania's third-largest city on Monday as he told jurors during opening arguments about alleged efforts to extort campaign contributions from potential donors, including law firms Stevens & Lee PC and Dilworth Paxson LLP, in exchange for government contracts.
December 14, 2017
The Norris McLaughlin & Marcus PA attorney facing charges over an alleged pay-to-play scheme in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday moved to exclude most of the campaign contributions he made to Democratic Mayor Ed Pawlowski, a day after an alleged co-conspirator copped a guilty plea.
December 13, 2017
A political consultant indicted for his role in two pay-to-play schemes in the Pennsylvania cities of Reading and Allentown entered guilty pleas in both cases Tuesday, after initially indicating he would fight the federal charges.
December 07, 2017
A Pennsylvania federal judge Thursday refused to dismiss the corruption charges against a Norris McLaughlin & Marcus PA attorney who was charged alongside the mayor of Allentown in an indictment detailing a pay-to-play scheme.
December 05, 2017
A Pennsylvania federal court judge denied an attempt by the mayor of Pennsylvania's third largest city to throw out corruption charges against him on Tuesday, ahead of his trial in January.
November 27, 2017
The recently added attorney for a consultant who's been indicted for his role in two pay-to-play schemes in the Pennsylvania cities of Reading and Allentown told a federal court on Monday that granting the government's bid for disqualification would prompt a new trial in the case.
November 16, 2017
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday ripped Allentown, Pennsylvania, Mayor Ed Pawlowski's effort to stamp out the corruption case against him, saying his claims that they failed to present exculpatory evidence to an investigating grand jury were both legally and factually flawed.
November 13, 2017
The Norris McLaughlin & Marcus PA attorney charged alongside the mayor of Allentown and a political consultant in a federal corruption indictment had "absolutely nothing to do" with nearly all events described and should get his own trial, counsel for the lawyer said in a Thursday filing in Pennsylvania.
November 02, 2017
The mayor of Pennsylvania's third-largest city asked a federal judge to throw out the corruption case against him on Wednesday, arguing that federal prosecutors manipulated an investigating grand jury and relied on hearsay evidence rather than direct testimony from the key cooperating witness to secure the indictment.