Weeks before introducing a bill to streamline data center development across Pennsylvania, [Republican] State Sen. Greg Rothman’s real estate firm quietly collected a fee from the $30 million sale of land now hosting the state’s largest proposed data center. 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.
It’s clearly a conflict of interest, by definition.
Maybe you could argue it wasn’t a quid pro quo or a bribe since there is no proof, but it’s awfully suspicious