Harrisburg Officials Seek to Halt State Receivership Case

BLOOMBERG:  Elected officials of Harrisburg,Pennsylvania, asked a judge to suspend the state’s takeover of city finances until a court investigates the resignation of former receiver David Unkovic.

Three officials who have opposed efforts by the city’s mayor and the state to restructure Harrisburg’s finances asked the judge overseeing the receivership to halt any work by Governor Tom Corbett related to the takeover, according to a document provided by Mark Schwartz, the officials’ lawyer…

The three officials asked state appeals court Judge Bonnie Leadbetter to hold a hearing and require Unkovic to explain his resignation. All receivership activity should be suspended until that hearing, the officials said…   (more)

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