Mike Fleck, who was sentenced to five years in federal prison for his role in the pay-for-play scandal surrounding former Allentown mayor Ed Pawlowski, is in a reentry program and will be released 18 months ahead of schedule.
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Carlos Rafael, who went to federal prison in November 2017 after pleading guilty to over 20 offenses, including false labeling of fish and falsifying federal records, may be spending his first day out of federal custody since 2017.
Thursday, March 4, is his projected release date, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. Rafael, 68, was scheduled to report to prison on Nov. 6, 2017. He was sentenced to 46 months, which would have meant a September 2021 release date.
Rafael was assigned to the Federal Medical Center Devens a federal prison for male inmates that need specialized or long-term medical or mental health care.
On April 30, 2020, he was transferred to community confinement under the Philadelphia Residential Reentry Management office, said Emery Nelson, a spokesperson for the bureau.
At the October meeting, Markey stated that Solrac LLC has been owned by the Rafael family for 20 years and in addition to Rafael-DeMello, Hathaway and his wife, Ivonilde Rafael Hathaway, and a third sister are also principals.
The Rafael family has yet to buy the property, which is still owned by Quinary Properties LLC, whose principals are the Aghai family, according to the meeting minutes, but Markey said Solrac LLC has a purchase and sale agreement for the property.
While Rafael himself isn’t mentioned at the meeting or listed under the LLC, he discussed the project with an editor from Dartmouth Week, along with plans to restore the Hawthorne Country Club on Tucker Road.