The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s contract with former State Senator Joe Scarnati’s lobbying firm is being called into question.
Spotlight PA reports that copies of the contract obtained through records requests “does not specify which entity or person the agency wants the firm to target or on what issue. Neither do the four invoices, totaling $41,229.25,” that Scarnati’s firm submitted to the Commission. Meanwhile, the Commission already maintained a liaison with the General Assembly with a salary of over $100,000 a year.
The Commission entered into the $10,000 a month contract with Scarnati’s firm last year. Scarnati represented the region in the State Senate for nearly 20 years and served 13 years as Senate President Pro Tempore.
More backroom deals and graft, perhaps bordering out – and – out corruption. We’ll have to wait to hear more on this one.