{"id":309144,"date":"2026-10-18T06:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309144\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T06:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:02:32","slug":"josh-shapiro-faces-lawsuit-over-pennsylvania-governors-mansion-revamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309144\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Shapiro faces lawsuit over Pennsylvania governor\u2019s mansion revamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cracks may be starting to appear in Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u2019s 2028 White House bid<\/a>, a lawsuit provided to On The Money shows.<\/p>\n

Shapiro, it should be noted, is a common-sense moderate and a much needed presence in a Democratic Party dominated these days by the loopy far left. As such he is a favorite on Wall Street, and Big Tech. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s been my experience that the men and women in these industries are a political grab bag \u2013 they love making dough but embrace certain liberal policies (pro choice among them). Bill Clinton is their benchmark, and they yearn for a candidate to take the party back from the progressive (and even communist) hordes.<\/p>\n

Cracks may be starting to appear in Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u2019s 2028 White House bid amid a lawsuit tied to the renovation costs of the governor\u2019s mansion. Don Pearsall \/ NY Post Design<\/p>\n

Shapiro appears to fit that bill and the numbers don\u2019t lie: He has raised a whopping $60 million for his fall gubernatorial re-election campaign, much of it from the moderate business types on Wall Street and in tech. His GOP challenger has pulled in just $3 million.<\/p>\n

Yet if any of the allegations in the whistleblower lawsuit I just reviewed are even partly true \u2014 and yes they are just allegations \u2014 there are questions whether Shapiro is ready for the primetime political proctology exam he will experience if he does run in 2028.<\/p>\n

The suit doesn\u2019t name Shapiro as a defendant but he looms large in the litigation that takes aim at the state and agencies where the alleged whistleblower worked. <\/p>\n

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Filed in federal court by plaintiff Nicole Moyer, it alleges that the state recently fired the procurement specialist for doing her job, namely questioning the costs of state projects using taxpayer money. (Full disclosure: Moyer\u2019s lawyer, Bryn Mawr attorney Mark Schwartz, represented me nearly two decades ago to dispute references to my published work while I was employed by another media outlet).<\/p>\n

Those costs involved a renovation of the governor\u2019s mansion. She claims in the lawsuit that she was fired in March, \u201cdevoid of an explanation,\u201d after crying foul on alleged cost overruns to rehab the property after it was damaged in an arson attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In April 2025, a man hurling a Molotov cocktail caused substantial damage to the residence while the governor, his family and friends were inside. The attack could have cost the governor and the people inside their lives. It occurred during the first night of Passover and Shapiro is Jewish.<\/p>\n

Procurement specialist Nicole Moyer claims that the state recently fired her for crying foul on alleged cost overruns to rehab the the governor\u2019s mansion after it was damaged in an arson attack. James Keivom<\/p>\n

Obviously, the residence needs to be repaired and security around it and the governor must be heightened. But what seemed like a straightforward project soon turned oddly controversial. The state at first didn\u2019t provide a public accounting for all the items that were being repaired, according to local media reports.<\/p>\n

The total spend is above $30 million. Based on local press it includes not just increased security but also spending on luxury goods. According to the publication Spotlight PA, the state\u2019s Department of General Services \u201chas purchased a variety of items, including new leather sofas, wallpaper, ductwork, drywall, cooling foam mattresses, faucets, and other plumbing fixtures \u2026 But nearly $1.5 million of the $6 million spent is publicly unaccounted for.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit filed by Moyer goes further. It alleges that that state didn\u2019t competitively bid out much of the work on the mansion, that it was replete with cost overruns and that when she brought it to the attention of her supervisors she was terminated.<\/p>\n

A rep for Shapiro said the allegations in the lawsuit have zero merit. The governor\u2019s office has described Moyer as a \u201cdisgruntled former employee.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for Shapiro disagrees with this analysis and the allegations in the lawsuit, which she says have zero merit. The governor\u2019s office has described Moyer as a \u201cdisgruntled former employee\u201d and suggested her lawsuit is political in nature since she\u2019s a registered Republican. The rep also denied that any of the money spent went unaccounted, and said Schwartz has other litigation against the governor that suggests and ax to grind.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThese totally and completely false allegations are a politically motivated attack by a disgruntled former employee who was dismissed from her position and has clearly timed this lawsuit weeks out from an election,\u201d The spokeswoman said, adding that Moyer \u201cwas not familiar with this project\u2019s emergency procurement process and it was beyond her scope of work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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She said the \u201cnecessary security improvements based on its assessment and issued an Emergency Declaration consistent with the Procurement Code in the fastest, most efficient, and most cost-effective way to complete the work and ensure the safety of the Governor and his Family. Our Administration complied with all relevant procurement policies in accordance with that declaration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moyer disagrees as does Schwartz who tells On The Money that politics has nothing to do with the lawsuits; he\u2019s in fact a long time Democrat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis country doesn\u2019t need another imperial president in the White House,\u201d Schwartz said. \u201cInstead of claiming that this is all politics he (Shapiro) should come forward for an immediate deposition. I look forward to that day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cracks may be starting to appear in Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u2019s 2028 White House bid, a lawsuit provided…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60,2258,33,14671,126646,28,30,29,50,126647],"class_list":["post-309144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-business","tag-democrats","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-lawsuits","tag-on-the-money","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election-2028"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309144","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=309144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}