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Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
PA's Gov. Tom Corbett To Bar Food Stamp Recipients For Having Assets
By Susie Madrak
Everything Gov. Tom Corbett does comes right out of the ALEC playbook. But because he rarely speaks to the press, preferring to fly under the radar, there are no outrageous sound bytes on the local news and public outrage is hard to generate. Maybe this latest decision will finally get Pennsylvanians to speak up. From the Philadelphia City Paper:
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Judges Lock-Up Kids For Cash
A former juvenile court judge in Pennsylvania was sentenced to 28 years in prison for his part in an alleged "kids for cash" scam considered one of the worst judicial scandals in US history.
Mark Ciavarella Jr., 61, a former judge in Luzerne County, was also ordered to pay $1.17 million in restitution.
Mr. Ciavarella was convicted in federal court in Scranton, Pa., in February on charges that he and a second judge, Michael Conahan, ran the local court system as a racketeering enterprise.
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