Easton’s Lafayette College offers to help rescue the financially troubled Jacob Bachmann Publick House located in the city’s downtown neighborhood.

Northampton County, of which Easton is the seat, has assumed the bankrupt landmark building’s $550,000 debt through its General Purpose Authority (GPA).

The www.billybytes.com website and blog have been exposing the illegality of the GPA since December 18, 2001, when it issued its $111 million megabond, also illegal, for the county’s courthouse and prison expansions and county-wide “economic development,”

The county’s administration of Glenn Reibman floated the fraudulent megabond while the issue was still in litigation in the courtroom of Northampton County Court of Common Pleas with Senior Judge Isaac Garb presiding.

The confused, frantic, and desperate purpose of a conspiracy that involved the county’s Court of Common Pleas, the Administration, the GPA, and Northampton County District Attorney was to salvage the illegal $111 million megabond - just as Northampton County is now trying desperately to save the Jacob Bachmann Tavern and the reputation of the Easton Heritage Alliance (EHA), the non-profit organization that held the deed to the tavern on whose mortgage it defaulted through mismanagement.

Read the article published in yesterday’s The Easton-Express exposing this fraud here.