Reporter Kurt Bresswein is The Express-Times’s pimp for johns like Lehigh Valley Industrial Park (LVIP) Inc. President Kerry Wrobel.

Wroebel is hooked in with all kinds of unsavory characters.  One of these is R. Chadwick Paul Jr., chief executive officer of the Northeaston Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Technology Partners.

Bresswein dutifully reports that “Paul on Tuesday said he is prohibited from sharing such details as the cost, financing and timetable of making the Wi-Fi service, a high-speed, wireless Internet network covering much of the South Side [Bethlehem, Pennsylvania] available.”

This work in process under the cloak of secrecy is being done under the 2004 Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) statute enacted by Pennsylvania’s corrupt legislature and signed into law by the commonwealth’s equally corrupt Governor, Edward G. Rendell.

Another shadowy character connected to the Ben Franklin/LVIP/LVEDC caper is Michael Perrucci, whose 124-acre Sands BethWorks Now LLC, of which he is a principal, is overlapped by the KIZ zone.

As pimp Bresswein reports, BethWorks Now is a “consortium of developers proposing an $879 million redevelopment of former Bethlehem Steel Corp. land.  The anchor project would be a slots casino…”

Yet another shadowy character associated with the super-secret KIZ project, procurer Bresswein reports, is “Stephen L. Melnich, director of the keystone innovaation zone for the LVEDC.

Pimp Bresswein quotes Melnick as saying that “an agreement is in place with an internet provider but that details have yet to be announced.”

Could that provider be AT&T, whose president for the entire Pennsylvnia Commonwealth and all of New Jersey - as well as a registered lobbyist in the latter, as the Garden State’s law requires, but not in the Keystone State, since it has no lobbyist-registration statute on its books - is Bethlehem resident J. Michael Schweder?

Schweder is also the president of the Bethlehem City Council and an avid - some would say rabid - supporter of a slot machine gambling casino for the Christmas City of Count Nicholas Von Zinzendorf and the Moravians.

Schweder’s support is exceeded on by that of Bethlehem’s Mayor, John Callahan, who, according to procurer Bresswein, “declined to comment on the initiative Tuesday except to say it is a Keystone Innovation Zone project.  City development director Tony Hanna referred questions to Paul,” and, of course, pimp Bresswein never followed up.

Bresswein continues, “Gov. Ed Rendell announced the Keystone Innovation Zone in July 2004,” the same month that he and the state’s legislature enacted the infamous “mid-night pay raises for themselves, executive branch officials, and the state’s judges.

It was also the month - July 4 week-end, in fact - that Rendell and his legislature gave birth to Act 71, “legalized” gambling, and its corollary statute, Act 72, the notorious “back-end” voter referendum fraud purporting school property tax relief.

Bresswein’s slavish report says that the South Side Keystone Innovation Zone is one of two inaugural zones along with the Lancaster area around Franklin and Marshall College.

Bresswein lies, and he knows it: In August 2004 Rendell visited Lafayette College’s Morris R. Williams Visual Arts Center in Easton, Pennsylvania, and amidst much hoopla presented the city’s Mayor, Philip B. Mitman, and the college’s President, Arthur J. Rothkopf, with a check for $9 million.

This gift was for the construction of the college’s new urban center, called “Bushkill Village,” located in the Bushkill Creek and Delaware River flood plain.