Summary: Four years ago this week, FBI agents swarmed Allentown City Hall for documents related to a then-unknown investigation into the city’s mayor, Ed Pawlowski. Today, Pawlowski is serving a 15-year prison sentence for federal corruption crimes. The lead investigator on the case, Scott Curtis, used to investigate mafia bosses in New York City. He rounded out his career with the Allentown corruption case. This week on the podcast, guest host Emily Opilo's interview with Curtis on the snags the case hit, the sheer manpower involved with making thousands of secret recordings, and how dangerously close the case was to being outed. Emily Opilo is The Morning Call's former Allentown City Hall reporter. Now she is on the investigations team.
