[6] MacLean and his colleagues filed a lawsuit against the city in response, denying the allegation against them and accusing the Daddona administration of demoting them because they had not supported the mayor during his election campaign.
The trio charged that then Allentown mayor William Heydt denied them promotions within the police department because they had won the previous 1994 lawsuit.
[6] In 2001, Allentown Mayor William Heydt, who was near the end of his second term, appointed MacLean as the city's acting police chief.
[6] Heydt's successor, Mayor Roy Afflerbach, who took office in January 2002, replaced MacLean with a permanent police chief, Stephen L.
[6] MacLean served as patrol captain from 2002 until his appointment as Chief of the Allentown Police Department by Mayor Ed Pawlowski in 2006.
[9][10] In 2014, MacLean switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democratic just before applying for a vacancy on the Allentown City Council.
[5] MacLean also voted against a proposal to hire an attorney to consult on potentially removing Mayor Pawlowski from office.
[1] MacLean's election as city council president came just weeks before Mayor Pawlowski was scheduled to go on trial, starting January 16, 2018, on 54 pay-to-play charges.
[1] On March 1, 2018, Mayor Ed Pawlowski was convicted on 47 of the 54 charges related to pay-to-play scheme he operated from office.
[3] In accordance with the city's home charter rule, MacLean became acting Mayor of Allentown on March 9 upon Pawlowski's resignation.