A well-known Allentown lawyer was sentenced to 61/2 years in prison Thursday for evading $1.5 million in taxes and steering a $500,000 tax-free donation back to himself. John Karoly, 60, became well-known in the Lehigh Valley after winning more than $10 million for clients in police-abuse lawsuits.
Character witnesses testified on his behalf, but the federal judge who convicted him of fraud and money laundering in a bench trial last year on the charity scheme said Karoly "seems to have an honesty problem." - AP
