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There is quite a soap opera in Pennsylvania featuring corrupt judges and attorneys!
Money, money, money!
Prosecutors allege attorney Robert Powell paid Judge Michael T. Conahan and former Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. more than $700,000 for their role in sending juveniles to Powell’s for-profit detention centers.
- Sharp-tongued exchange between Kosik, Flora
- Moran: ‘These were all people I trusted’
- Former prothonotary Moran all boxed up
- The day in quotes
- Ciavarella spies the feds
- Powell recounts judges’ pressure to deliver cash
- Powell says judges relentlessly pursued him
- Conahan considered liability for prosecution
- For Powell, a fall from grace
- The day in quotes
- Reporter’s Notebook: Technology gives everyone a seat
- Shakedowns and coverups
- Court will investigate employees’ ties to ex-judges’ payoffs
- Committee sends judicial conduct board bill to Senate
- On-the-stand admission: Mericle admits bribing others
- Defense: Ciavarella never took bribe, extorted Powell
- Prosecution: Judges turned courthouse into ‘cash cow’
- A stern Kosik moves selection along
- Those sentenced by Ciavarella wait outside court
- If you go
- Ciavarella asks for ‘a fair shake’
- Opening statements to be given today during Ciavarella trial
- Matter-of-fact judge doesn’t waste time
- If you go
- Former jailed juvenile hopes trial will bring justice
- Inside the courtroom: witnesses and other key players