In his latest e-missive, Philadelphia Forward's Brett Mandel brings attention to a low profile criminal case that demonstrates the flaws in the city's real estate assessment process:
James F. Lynch, a Board of Revision of Taxes tax assessor, and developer James F. Campenella both recently pled guilty to charges of bribery and fraud in a scheme where the developer paid the assessor $20,000 in cash in exchange for lowered tax assessments.
I found the Daily News story about this case in our Headlines Archive.