There was no debate of the ordinance revising the articles orgnizing the county’s General Purpose Authority when it was introduced to council on February 21, 2002, by council member Timothy Merwarth, soon-to-be chairman of council’s Finance Committee, replacing councilman Ron Angle, whom his cohorts on council were already plotting to remove.

These conspirators already had their audio recording equipment set up and ready to go in time for Angle’s scheduled Saturday morning Sunning WGPA-Am 1100-on-the-dial radio broacast from 8:00 to 10:00 AM.

The conspirators’ plot was to capture on tape “evidence” that  Angle is an “anti-Semite” and “racial bigot” and to use this “evidence” as a red herring to district the public when they sprang their trap at the next council meeting, March 7, 2002.

Meanwhile, the conspirators had negotiated with Angle’s attorney Philip Lauer an “agreement” in which Angle would resign his council positions as vice-president and chairman of the Finance Committee - positions in which he represented an obstacle to their plot of adopting the fraudulent revised articles of incorpration at the May 7, 2002, meeting.

What Angle’s cohorts, including his fellow Republicans, really wanted was to remove Angle from council completely.  but during the course of the May 7 meeting, the futility of this tactic became evident to them since Angle had been elected by the voters - and taxpayers - of the county’s District 4 political jurisdiction, the Slate Belt.

The GPA and its bonds and swaption refundings are frauds, as first alleged by me on December 18, 2001, when all three branches of Northampton County government and its District Attorney John M. Morganelli conspired to issue the $111 million bond over the formal objections of bond opponent Nazareth resident Bernie O’Hare III.

The court’s motion judge at the time, Isaac Garb from Bucks County, absented himself from the official duties of his bench, where Bernie had a scheduled 9:00 hearing seeking an injunction to stop the bond’s issue, giving County Executive Glenn Reibman and his administrator Jim Hickey and lawyers time to float the bond sans judicial review.

In so doing, Reibman, Hickey, and their fellow County Government conspirators though they had made the fraudulent bond issue “moot,” but they were wrong.

The issue is still very much alive, and the conspirators are going to learn that they are responsible for the fraulent bond’s repayment, not the taxpayers of Northampton County.