Staatssenator kassiert enorme Immobiliengebühr aus einem 30-Millionen-Dollar-Grundstücksverkauf für ein Rechenzentrum und legt dann einen Gesetzentwurf zur beschleunigten Entwicklung vor
https://www.gadgetreview.com/state-senator-pockets-massive-real-estate-fee-from-a-30m-data-center-land-sale-then-introduces-bill-to-fast-track-development
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Quick stats:
* Rothman’s real estate firm collected a fee from a $30 million land sale before he introduced data center legislation.
* Senate Bill 939 originally blocked municipalities from imposing stricter zoning on data centers, but preemption language was later stripped.
* **June 2025:** The 500-plus-acre PennTerra tract in Middlesex Township, Cumberland County, sells for $30 million to developers behind PAX-1 — a three-campus, $15 billion data center targeting 1.35 gigawatts of capacity. RSR Realtors receives a fee at closing.
* **RSR** is chaired by Rothman, who joined the firm in 1989. His father, Bill Rothman, founded it.
* **July 14, 2025:** Rothman introduces Senate Bill 939, creating “Commonwealth Opportunity Zones” with expedited permitting and — originally — provisions blocking municipalities from imposing stricter zoning rules on data centers than on other industries.
* PAX-1 developer Igal Feibush confirmed to Spotlight PA that RSR was paid “alongside several other brokers and consultants.” Neither party disclosed the dollar amount.
Totally normal thing you do when representing your constituents.
The corruption is so blatant and open.
Heads need to start rolling.
I’ve seen homeless people more honest than these A holes
🤣🤣 happens when you only have a $174k a year job. Need a side gig to make ends meat.
Just following Trump’s example.
Government is good business. Nothing is greedier.
I hope someone is paying attention. This is too fucking easy
A Republican taking a payoff to push legislation? Say it isn’t so.
when the republicans went to russia to celebrate our 4th of July, they were taking notes on how to speed-run corruption and electioneering, and how to make it fly in the faces of the American people (disinformation/social media manipulation, information warfare, et al.)
[https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626664156/gop-senators-spend-july-4-in-moscow](https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626664156/gop-senators-spend-july-4-in-moscow)
this is all so goddamn disgusting and disgraceful. self-inflicted wound, America.
“Whether that sequence amounts to a conflict of interest — or simply an uncomfortable overlap — depends entirely on who you ask and what standard you think elected officials should be held to.” Ah, that is the definition of conflict of interest and corruption.
I mean if he didn’t steal the money, would he even be a politician?
Why would Obama and Biden make him do that?
I work in tech and deal with data centers. A bunch of the big ones pay zero sales tax, they get a special zoning that excludes it. Hundreds of millions spent, zero tax money coming in.
Yup, Republican. Not surprising.
He learned from Clay Davis cause he probably knows he gets his money either way. He absolutely fleeced them. Shiiiiiiiiit
Totally legal according to SCOTUS. We are going to have to just erase Roberts era court opinions.
In 1991, Rothman pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of conspiracy to commit forgery. The conviction was later expunged by governor Ed Rendell, who issued Rothman a pardon in January 2011. In 2015, Rothman said that he had learned from his mistake and took responsibility for it.
For those who don’t know him, wanna guess which party he’s from?
He’s a Republican, if anyone couldn’t tell from the blatant corruption
That’s the real reason people get into politics. Legislators get advance notice of pending changes and get rich off insider information.
Let’s see I wonder what party he belongs to?
that’s called bribery
Kids, this used to be called corruption, and the politician would resign rather than continue to show their face in public and keep cropping up on the news to embarrass him and his family. That was when America was great.
Time to apply some of that hard on crime logic to corrupt politicians who take bribes. Let’s pass some legislation doing prison sentences, robust, fines, disbarment, it’s time for some type of legal consequence.
Put this dude in prison.
Fucking criminal.
All these bastards need to be thrown in prison.
It’s called trickle down corruption
Guess the party
Offering a bribe for legislation should result in immediate forfeiture of the cost of buying and developing the property and jail time for the human initiating the bribe, and accepting the bribe should result in immediate loss of position + jail time.
It’s fucking infuriating that this is not what happens
You already know it’s a republican because it doesn’t say so in the headline. If it were a democrat, they’d shove it down your throat.
We need a way to remove these obviously corrupt politicians ASAP.
This guy is a Republican in the PA State Senate. He’s being challenged this year by a young Democrat, [Nathan Wood](https://ballotpedia.org/Nathan_Wood). They’re running in District 34 in what looks like center/south central PA near the capital of Harrisburg: https://ballotpedia.org/Pennsylvania_State_Senate_District_34
If you live here, help defeat this guy. While wood is very young and has little experience, he’s likely a much better fit for the people in that district.
This is just plain treason
Why is a lawmaker allowed to have a real estate firm? This country is corrupt, top to bottom.
Vote or impeach them all.
corruption isn’t even bothering to hide anymore
america is going down the shitter