The two judges who led the Luzerne County Court for the last seven years took $2.67 million in payoffs for helping a private juvenile detention center reap millions from county contracts, with one of the judges going so far as to sentence children to detention over the objections of juvenile probation officers to benefit the center, federal prosecutors alleged Monday.
President Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and his predecessor, Michael T. Conahan, will serve 87 months in federal prison, resign from the bench and bar, and pay restitution if plea agreements released Monday are approved after a hearing before a federal judge.
About damn time and this is just the tip of the iceberg, going to be a very interesting year in Luzerne county to say the least. Looks as if they will probably plead guilty and be singing like canaries.
only kidding and be careful what you post.
