Ed Pawlowski is an American politician who served as the 41st Mayor of Allentown,Pennsylvania. He held the office from 2006 until his resignation in 2018,following his election to a fourth term in 2017. He resigned after being convicted on 47 federal charges related to corruption as mayor of Allentown.
The federal investigations into Jack Abramoff and his political and business dealings are among the broadest and most extensive in American political history,involving well over a dozen offices of the FBI and over 100 FBI agents tasked exclusively to the investigation. Given the extent and complexity of the suspected corruption,an entire inter-governmental task force,involving many federal government departments and agencies,has been established to aid the federal investigation. The U.S. Justice Department has announced that it will not reveal the details of the investigation,or who specifically has been targeted for investigation until indictments are issued. Under his plea agreements,Abramoff is required to answer all questions by federal investigators and prosecutors.
John Lakian is a businessman and former gubernatorial candidate of Massachusetts. He has founded several businesses,and served on the board on many others. He had an unsuccessful run for governor that resulted in a high-profile lawsuit in 1982,and an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate in 1994. Lakian served in Vietnam and was awarded a Bronze Star.
Dianne Wilkerson is a former Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate,representing the 2nd Suffolk District from 1993 to 2008.
Douglas Preston Woodlock is a United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Born in Connecticut,Woodlock graduated from Yale College and worked as a journalist before attending Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating,Woodlock was a lawyer in private practice at the law firm of Goodwin,Procter &Hoar,and had stints at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Appointed to the federal bench in 1986,Woodlock presided over a number of noteworthy cases and was a key figure in the construction of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the Boston waterfront. He assumed senior status in 2015.
Operation Bid Rig was a long-term investigation into political corruption in New Jersey conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,the Internal Revenue Service,and the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2014.
George T. Ashe was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as the fifty fifth Mayor of Lowell,Massachusetts. Ashe was the last administrative mayor of Lowell. In 1944 Lowell adopted the Massachusetts "Plan E" form of municipal government,under which the office of the mayor became a strictly ceremonial one.
Paul Joseph Sheehy was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives,Massachusetts Senate and was City Manager of Lowell,Massachusetts.
Carmen Milagros Ortiz is an attorney,college instructor,and former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
David M. Nangle is an American state legislator and convicted felon who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1999 to 2020. He is a Lowell resident and a member of the Democratic Party. While a member of the House,he served as the chair of the House Ethics committee. In February 2021,Nangle pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud,bank fraud,making false statements to a bank,and filing false tax returns and was sentenced to 15 months in prison and two years of supervised release. He was released from federal custody on November 10,2022.
The MBM scandal was an American political scandal of the 1970s which involved members of the Massachusetts Senate extorting money from McKee-Berger-Mansueto,Inc. (MBM),the consulting company supervising the construction of the University of Massachusetts Boston campus at Columbia Point.
James A. Kelly Jr. was an American politician who served as a Democrat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1959 to 1965 and the Massachusetts Senate from 1965 to 1979. In 1983,he was convicted of extortion.
Between 1980 and 1981,Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Chairman Barry Locke and the Assistant Director of the MBTA's Real Estate Department Frank J. Walters,Jr. ran a number of kickback schemes at the MBTA. The kickbacks were discovered when newly appointed MBTA General Manager James O'Leary accidentally opened an envelope meant for Locke that contained the proceeds from one of the schemes. A total of seventeen people and one corporation were indicted for their roles in kickback schemes at the MBTA. Locke was convicted of five counts of bribery and sentenced to 7 to 10 years in prison. Locke is the only Massachusetts cabinet secretary to be convicted of a felony while in office since the state's adoption of the cabinet system in 1970.
David Mancovitz was an American attorney and politician from Boston,Massachusetts.
Daniel Henry Coakley was an American Democratic politician and attorney from Massachusetts. He was a key figure in early 20th century Boston politics,as an ally District Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier and as an on-again-off-again ally to Mayor James Michael Curley. As an attorney,he took part in numerous badger game extortion schemes and was disbarred in 1922 for deceit,malpractice,and gross misconduct.
Douglas M. Hodge is an American businessman. He is the former CEO of Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO),the world's largest bond manager. He pleaded guilty in October 2019 to the felony of conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering. In February 2020 he was sentenced to nine months in federal prison,and to pay a $750,000 fine and serve 500 hours of community service,for his participation in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal.
Ernest C. Stasiun was an American politician who served on the Massachusetts Governor's Council from 1959 to 1965. He was convicted of bribery in 1965.
