Forget about Shutting the Barn Door – the Harrisburg Incinerator Scoundrels...
Thank You Mayor Linda Thompson! Make no mistake about it, this week’s SEC charge against and accepted by the City, was a charge against Linda Thompson for failure to disclose pertinent financial...
View ArticleRequest for Investigation into Philadelphia’s Board of City Trusts
MARK D. SCHWARTZ Attorney at Law Post Office Box 330 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010-0330 www.markschwartzesq.com June 13, 2013 The Honorable Kathleen Kane – PERSONAL ATTENTION Pennsylvania Attorney...
View ArticleMark Schwartz: Request for House Investigation
MARK D. SCHWARTZ Attorney at Law Post Office Box 330 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010-0030 www.markschwartzesq.com Telephone & Fax: 610 525-5534 Via Fax to 717 787-6564 Honorable Samuel H. Smith,...
View ArticleWeary and Wary of the Philadelphia School District Passion Play? Another...
Every year with the coming of the summer solstice, Philadelphia School District honchos put up a hue and cry for money to put a band-aid on a total debacle. Every year we hear of cuts beyond the bone...
View ArticleBarring Felons from Lobbying Pennsylvania State Government
MARK D. SCHWARTZ Attorney at Law Post Office Box 330 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010-0330 www.markschwartzesq.com Telephone & Fax- 610 525-5534 August 29, 2014 Honorable Tom Corbett Governor of...
View ArticleFor Pennsylvania Politicians Crime Pays and Pays Some More
Having spent my early career working for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, I have thought long and hard about why, for decades now, one public official follows another when it comes to...
View ArticleOur Very Own Congress- The Bubble that Needs to be Burst
We’ve managed to survive the tech bubble, banking bubble, and the real estate bubble, yet another bubble is more destructive and something which should have exploded long ago. Take just one week in the...
View ArticleFive Guys to the Rescue
Suppose you are Mayor of Philadelphia. Your fiefdom is known for several “firsts”, unfortunately most notably “first” in poverty amongst the country’s ten largest cities. We have 1.5 million...
View ArticleOp-ED: MISSING THE MARK ON GIRARD AND HERSHEY
Having legal experience with Pennsylvania’s unholy trinity of trusts: The Barnes, The Hershey Trust, and the Girard College Trust, it amazes me that two former chairmen of Girard’s Board of Managers...
View ArticleAn Open Victim Impact Statement on the Sentencing of Kathleen Kane
MARK D. SCHWARTZ Attorney at Law Post Office Box 330 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010-0330 www.markschwartzesq.com 610-525-5534 October 8, 2016 The Honorable Wendy Demchick-Alloy, Judge Montgomery County...
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