Background on Joseph Kubacki here.
Kubacki is a son of the late Reading Mayor John C. Kubacki, who was indicted on extortion charges by a federal grand jury in 1964, the last year of his first mayoral term.
John Kubacki was convicted along with reputed Reading mobster Abe Minker of extorting $10,000 from parking meter vendors who were told they should pay up or lose their city contracts.