Former PA Treasurer Rob McCord worked with federal authorities for several weeks shortly before entering a guilty plea on two counts of extortion.
Between late 2014 and early 2015, McCord wore a wire for the FBI to record major political donor Richard Ireland, among others, Angela Couloumbis, Mark Fazlollah and Craig R. McCoy of the Inquirer report.
Ireland’s Valley Forge Investment Corporation has received millions in public funds, while one of its clients made more than $5 million in fees during McCord’s time as Treasurer, according to the report.
The last four years have been a rollercoaster ride for McCord, who easily won re-election as Treasurer in 2012 before taking third in an expensive gubernatorial race in 2014. Seven months after losing the primary, McCord resigned unexpectedly and pleaded guilty to several federal charges.
Now fourteen months on, McCord has yet to be sentenced, though he faces up to 40 years in prison and $500,000 in fines.
McCord’s cooperation with the FBI looks to be part of a crackdown on pay-to-play politics in the Keystone State.
Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski is at the center of an FBI investigation into contracting practices, in which the Mayor’s former campaign manager Mike Fleck also wore a wire. A week after raiding Allentown City Hall, the FBI moved on to investigate Reading’s city government and former Mayor Vaughn Spencer, who also used Fleck as a consultant.
Fleck pleaded guilty last week to one count of conspiracy to commit extortion and bribery and one count of tax evasion. Pawlowski and Spencer have yet to be charged.
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See, DD.
Tim = Sponge Retard = Brandy = bungy = Unsanctioned Retard = School teacher = [so many other screen-names]
It’s the same pathetic RETARD troll.
I heard from my sources the FBI has Diano under surveillance and has tapped his phone and has access to all his e-mails. Better be careful bud! What about all those cash deposits to your checking account? Very fishy!!!!
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Do they have anything on Sestak? (an interview with his staff and former treasurers might reveal a lot)
Now that he’s done, would the FBI care?
John Callahan picked a good time to start losing elections.
Diano: Remember what I’ve stressed – its all interconnected. Gee – why HAS the FBI been targeting the Pennsylvania Democratic Party (Fattah, McCord, Fleck, etc.)? And what’s gonna happen prior to the forthcoming Convention? Saving the best for last, I suspect…
Has Johnny Doc been arrested yet?
Is Penn State still paying Cynthia Baldwin as chief legal counsel to unethically mislead clients and courts about Sandusky cover-up?
They will never give full credit to the caped crusader who took Rob McCord down, Mr Alan Kennedy Shaffer.
This is interesting. I had been under the impression the wire wearing was during early-mid 2014, when he was still running for Gov and talking to donors looking for quid-pro-quo.
But, I guess that’s when the wire-tapping of him was instead.
It will be interesting to see what comes out of all this.
Has Frank Fina resigned yet?