Campaign consultant in pay-to-play scheme gets 5 years

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A political consultant who pleaded guilty in a pay-to-play scheme in which two Pennsylvania mayors were convicted has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Mike Fleck also received three years of supervised release Friday in federal court in Allentown.
The FBI has said Fleck was at the center of a scheme in which the mayors of Allentown and Reading (REH’-ding) traded city contracts for campaign donations.
Fleck pleaded guilty in 2016 to bribery, extortion and