Fed Ed's Seth Williams Connection

As most of you probably know, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams has been indicted on bribery and extortion charges, has pleaded not guilty and is currently out on bail. A reading of the indictment makes him look like a greedy pig. What most of you don't know is that he and Allentown Mayor Edwin "Fed Ed" Pawlowski were acquainted. In fact, that's how Allentown ended up with Joel Fitzgerald (no relation to Ella) as a police chief in 2013.  

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.