BROOKHAVEN, Pennsylvania, Aug. 7 -- The Pennsylvania House Democrats issued the following news release on behalf of Pennsylvania State Rep. Leanne Krueger-Braneky, D-Delaware:

State Rep. Leanne Krueger-Braneky, D-Delaware, released the following statement congratulating first responders with Aston Township Fire Co. for its $1 million Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant announced by Gov. Tom Wolf today:

"By winning this large highly competitive grant, Aston Township Fire Company not only stood out across the state, but its service to the community had to be second to none," she said. "Congratulations to Aston Township, and thank you to Governor Wolf for recognizing a wise investment in Aston and its finest first responders. Under the leadership of Chief Mike Evans, these firefighters and EMS workers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe.

"The real winner is the community, of course. This award will help keep local taxes down and help keep people safe. I'm proud to have helped support this grant to the community and look forward to championing other great local projects."

Aston Township plans to renovate and expand the former Green Ridge Fire House, which is located on Duttons Mill Road. The existing building was constructed over 30 years ago and is outdated and undersized. The proposed improvements involve renovating the existing 5,250-square-foot building and constructing a 15,430-square-foot addition. The new firehouse will have six fire truck bays, two EMS bays, a recreation room, office space, meeting rooms, bunk rooms and storage and accessory spaces.

The Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program is a grant program administered by the Office of the Budget for the acquisition and construction of regional economic, cultural, civic, recreational, and historical improvement projects. RACP projects are authorized in the Redevelopment Assistance section of a Capital Budget Itemization Act, have a regional or multi-jurisdictional impact, and generate substantial increases or maintain current levels of employment, tax revenues, or other measures of economic activity.

The cooperation enjoyed in recent years by Greg Lindberg and the investigators unwinding his complex, fraud-enabled empire is very quickly evaporating.

Lindberg, sentenced to 12 years in prison last month and ordered to pay restitution of $1.655 billion, said investigators are suddenly playing hardball with elements of his plea agreement. Lindberg expected to be temporarily housed at Pike County Detention Center, where he would have access to a computer, internet and spreadsheet software.

Instead, Lindberg was transferred from PCDC after one day, he said in a new court filing. Lindberg is asking for an emergency order to delay his reporting date to the Bureau of Prisons, or to ensure his continued access to a computer and the internet, until the restitution issue is settled.

Lindberg is appealing the May 28 order of $1.655 billion by Judge Max O. Cogburn. After he filed the appeal, the government resorted to “prosecutorial vindictiveness,” Lindberg alleges.

In a memorandum accompanying his appeal, Lindberg argues that a proper accounting under federal restitution law shows he owes nothing. In fact, Lindberg claims he overpaid by about $1.27 billion.

In response, Lindberg claims that government attorney Lyndie Freeman asked the defense to withdraw the appeal, “stating that a failure to do so would be treated as a breach of the plea agreement.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina could not be reached for comment. The plea agreement, presentencing report and other documents were filed under seal.

Lindberg: The government reneged

The government had promised to support Lindberg’s request for an extended delay in reporting to the Bureau of Prisons, Lindberg claims, in exchange for his cooperation with the special master unwinding his financial empire.

Lindberg worked for months with the special master, Joseph W. Grier III of the law firm ⁠Grier Wright Martinez.

In his appeal from the restitution order, however, Lindberg took aim at financial decisions made by Grier, as well as tactics by the prosecutor. For example, Lindberg criticized the reuse at sentencing of victim statements collected about two-and-a-half years earlier.

“The timing—an adverse demand made directly in response to a protected, post-conviction filing implicating the prosecutor personally—establishes actual prosecutorial vindictiveness—and, at the very least, the ‘realistic likelihood of vindictiveness’ the Constitution forbids,” Lindberg’s attorney writes in the request for an emergency order.

Lindberg and his co-conspirators caused companies he controlled in North Carolina, Bermuda, Malta, and elsewhere to invest more than $2 billion in loans and other securities with his own affiliated companies and laundered the proceeds of the scheme, the government has said.

Lindberg directed the scheme and personally benefitted from the fraud in part by “forgiving” more than $125 million in loans to himself from the insurance companies that he controlled. Lindberg used his ill-gotten gains to fund a lavish lifestyle, buying private jets, mansions and a 200-foot luxury yacht, court documents say.

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