Former Allentown Mayor Denied New Trial on Corruption Charges

Former Allentown, Pa. mayor Edwin Pawlowski lost his bid for a new trial on public corruption charges after the Third Circuit on Wednesday rejected claims about newly discovered exculpatory evidence.

Pawlowski, who was convicted of 38 corruption-related offenses in 2018, claimed that he learned about the evidence when now-retired FBI agent Scott Curtis appeared on the podcast “FBI Retired Case File Review” the following year. Curtis had been the lead agent on Pawlowski’s case.

But the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said most of the evidence discussed on the podcast was produced during discovery, and ...