Alright, I decided to do a little digging into Ed Lawndale myself.
Turns out, Ol' Ed has a few skeletons of his own in the closet! What I found out may startle you, and should surely digust you, but I'm going to name names.
Ed Lawndale has been using his medical supply company, Westpac, under cover of it's partnership with the charity VACRF (Vietnamese Anti-Communist Relief Fund) to smuggle illegal weapons to Vietnam!
When the connection was discovered by a high-school volunteer, Vinh Kelly, Ed had one of his goons, Bobby Ngyuen strangle Vinh to death! It was staged to look like a suicide by hanging, but make no mistake, this was murder.
Vinh's adopted brother Brian was suspicious of this so called suicide (as well he should have been) and through some brave detective work, discovered that Ed was indeed involved in the murder. Not only that, but after discovering Ed was being extorted by Bobby Nguyen, the goon that actually performed the murder-for-hire, Brian saw Mr. Lawdale kill him as well!
Lawndale found out about Brian's discoveries, and he too was targeted by Ed's thugs! Luckily they failed and were apprehended by police, where they were able to implicate Ed in their misdeeds.
Other charges I've been looking into are the assault of a high school girl, the shooting of the head of the VACRF, grand theft of a police vehicle and attempted murder.
By the way all of this stuff is on film!