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A year ago, the City of Chester’s financial emergency and inability to fund essential city services and taxpayer funded pensions led to the Commonwealth appointing
The DCED’s Receiver was again caught making false statements to a number of area municipal officials about the CWA. The Receiver has been falsely claiming
In 2012, the City of Chester retained John P. McLaughlin and his then law firm to represent it in matters related to, among others, the
If the City of Chester were successful in seizing the Chester Water Authority (CWA) and Aqua buys the CWA, it has been established that the
The City of Chester has been in financial difficulty for decades. Since the mid-1990s, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development has been obligated under
It is becoming clear that critical information has been withheld from the Receiver appointed by the Commonwealth in April of 2020 to oversee Chester. Much of
In late 2011, the City of Chester was outvoted 2-1 in arbitrations with the police and firefighter’s unions. As the opinions below show, the dissent
Proposed Budget relied on payment from Aqua to Chester. The state appointed Receiver for Chester’s December 2, 2020 Status Report revealed that City officials proposed
Governor Wolf Fails to Deliver $15 Million Promised to Chester Mayor if Chester’s Mayor Agreed to the State Appointed Receiver On December 23, 2020, Chester’s
Receiver asked court for authorization for transfer of wealth On Tuesday Nov 10, 2020 in PA Commonwealth Court, the Harrisburg- appointed Receiver asked the court
