Fed Ed and Miked Fleck ran into Williams at some function. The DA was aware that Allentown was looking for a police chief and made a pitch for Fitzgerald because the two had grown up together. Fitzgerald had spent 18 years in Philly as a cop. But in 2013, he was police chief in Missouri City, Texas.
Fleck and Fed Ed agreed to bring in Fitzgerald. According to my source, there was a shakedown, but I see no evidence of it in Fed Ed's campaign finance reports.
Fitzgerald's son Christopher would later get into a shitload of trouble after an armed confrontation with undercover detectives. Fitzgerald then hired noted Philadelphia criminal defense attorney Jack McMahon, who won an acquittal for his son.
That's when Fed Ed met the man who represents him now. It must have been love at first sight.
McMahon, incidentally, is enjoying himself in the Caribbean and isn't expected back in the states until sometime next week, unless Trump imposes a travel ban on criminal defense lawyers.
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It would have been very odd if there wasn't a shake down involved.
They were SOP.
The Mayor has not been charged with any crime despite this blogs hounding.
Somewhere there is a federal penitentiary band waiting for a new drummer.
I thought Seth Williams was the shit. I figured he'd be AG or Guv, eventually. My, how politicians can surprise and disappoint. People used to think Fed Ed was the shit. Now, he and Williams are just shit.
As a result of their connection the residents of Allentown were stuck with a no-good police chief who was only out for himself instead of a true professional such as Ted Kohuth. another on of Fed Ed's failed appointments.
Bernie your a 100% on point. Williams and Fitzgerald were connected and Pawlowski used his choice of Fitzgerald as a political statement on diversity. He started Fitzgerald at $29,000 more than the former Chief Roger MacLean and gave him a $9,000 raise in almost two years; a 6.9% increase. Fitzgerald, a carpet bagging police administrator, used his position as a stepping stone and left "Fed Ed" high and dry. Fitzgerald, who absolutely did nothing as Chief of Police, was almost as disappointing as the Afflerbach pick of Stephen L. Kuhn as Chief. Both outsiders, picked by questionable mayors with other agendas, left the department to other Chief's with their own agendas [Blackburn & Hanna]. And the cycle continues!
"I thought Seth Williams was the shit. I figured he'd be AG or Guv, eventually."
So did I.
As much as I don't want to admit it A.G.Holder and Lynch took down Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr and Chaka Fatah and D.A. Williams. All top shelf Democrats.D.A. Williams certainly a top priority rather than Mayor Pawloski.Only so many hours in a day.
ROFL..I love that image soo much
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