Racketeering in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
The city of Easton, Pennsylvania, and Arcadia Properties, the private developer of Riverwalk, Northampton County, of which Easton is the governmental seat, the Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority (LANTA), the Easton Parking Authority (EPA), and the town of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, have attempted to dupe for personal and political gain the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTBC).
At today’s meeting of the DRJTBC in Solebury, Pennsylvania, i and other Easton residents testified that all of these political jurisdictions have misappropriated local, state, and federal funds to finance the Riverwalk scheme, including funds inserted in U.S. Senate appropriations bill as earmarks by Appropriations Committee Chairman, Arlen Specter, and his former Senate colleague, Rich Santorum.