ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Former Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski is expected to be released from prison this June, more than four years ahead of his original 2030 release date, according to a close friend.<\/p>\n
Pawlowski, who was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in 2018, was originally scheduled for release in August 2030.<\/p>\n
Alan Jennings, a longtime advocate for the former mayor, told 69 News that Pawlowski will first be discharged to a halfway house upon his release.<\/p>\n
Jennings, who has maintained that the original sentence was excessive, said it is “about time” Pawlowski was released.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Pawlowski was convicted of 47 federal counts, including bribery, fraud, and corruption. While a federal appeals court upheld those convictions in 2022, Pawlowski signed a “contrition letter” in October 2024. In the letter, he described himself as a “naive politician” and blamed his downfall on a combination of his own ego, poor judgment, and the influence of political consultants.<\/p>\n
According to Jennings, Pawlowski has depleted his savings and pension\u2014not to fund his legal defense, but to pay court-ordered restitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Former Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski is expected to be released from prison this June, more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,1391,31],"class_list":["post-130414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}