Like the Apostle Paul, at first saw threw a glass darkly but then I saw clearly.

Solely for partisan political reasos, Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli is not be be blamed soley for cover up of the county’s MOAB, dropped on its taxpayers in 2001.

I’m talking not about the military’s 1000-pound Massive Ordnance Air Blast, successor to its 500-pound “daisy cutter” of Viet Nam and the inspiration for Bethlehem City’s “blast bang” explosive that set fire to the building where he lived and scorched his body after the city’s ninjas had shot him deat with 11 bullets, two of them in the back.

I.m talking instead about Northampton County’s $111 million Mother Of All Bonds

This MOAB was dropped by the Democratic County Executive Glen Reibman and his Department of Community and Economic Development and General Purpose Authority that also designed and assembled the weapon.
So Morganelli”s cover up of the county’s MOAB and its destruction to the county’s finances, taxpayers’ pocketbooks, and workforce, in terms of employee morale and bodies attrited by pink slips, and their positions left unfilled is understandable:

Morganelli is a Democrat, too, whose job depends mainly on loyal Democratic-Party voters, especially those in the cities of Bethlehem and Easton.

The DA covered up this destruction through his failure to pursue the legal remedy available to him, Quo Warranto, which would have disarmed the MOAB.

The DA was crafty enough, however, to leave himself an out: pass the buck of Quo Warranto to the incoming new county council with its 6-3, veto-proof Republican majority.

He simply deputized the Republican majority.  He delegated to it the power of Quo Warranto, a power that except for political expediency he would jealously reserve exclusively for himself.

Litigants Bernie O’Hare et al sued the county and the plaintiffs’ attorneys of record were Brian Monahan, also solicitor for Williams Township, and Charlie Smith, solicitor to Forks Township’s water-sewer authority, both Republicans.

The Republican council’s first official act of 2002 was to make Monahan its solicitor, a positive sign since he had been an attorney of record for the 2001-launched MOAB.

Indeed, the new council with its veto-proof Republican majority voted unanimously to pursue Quo Warranto and directed to Monahan to proceed.

Later that evening, after new Council President J. Michael Dowd had adjourned the legal meeting, he convened an illegal meeting in blatant violation of Pennsylvania’s Sunshine Law.

Under the leadership of Dowd, who also represents the county’s District 1 including its seat Easton, rescinded its vote, cast only hours earlier, to pursue legal remedy for the county’s taxpayers through Quo Warranto.

That was the genesis of council’s role in the conspiracy - the cover up of the cover up for Northampton’s Court of Common Pleas Senior motions judge, a Republican and resident of Bucks County, Isaac Garb.

Garb purposely absented himself from a scheduled court hearing of MOAB plaintiffs seeking injunctive relief through summary judgement.

Garb committed this negative act to buy time for the Reibman administration and its stable of shysters like Jim Hickey to drop the MOAB on the New York Stock Exchange and the bond markets - thus rendering the MOAB issue moot, not on substantive, but on procedural grounds solely.
When The Express-Times‘ courthouse-beat reporter Joe Carlson reported Garb’s action in the paper’s next-day edition, he couched, carefully, craftily, and clearly in the language of wire fraud.
He described the $111 million MOAB launching as sizzling through the telephone wires from Reibman’s and Hickey’s 4th Floor Government Center executive suit to the hallowed halls of Wall Street.