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02-21-2011, 04:05 AM
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A federal jury on Friday found a former Pennsylvania judge guilty in a so-called kids-for-cash scheme, in which he took money in exchange for sending juvenile offenders to for-profit detention centers.
Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was accused of taking $2.8 million in bribes and kickbacks for putting juveniles into detention centers owned by friends.
The jury in Scranton found him guilty of racketeering, money-laundering conspiracy, fraud and filing false income tax returns.
The jury found him not guilty, however, of seven counts of extortion and 10 counts of bribery.
The former judge faces a maximum sentence of 157 years in prison. The jury also ruled he must forfeit $997,600 </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">‘Scumbag!’: Judge behind ‘cash for kids’ scheme gets an earful
In the trials of those behind the “kids for cash” scheme discussed in Michael Moore’s film Capitalism: A Love Story, one recently convicted judge, <u>who sentenced countless innocent children to a private juvenile detention center, recently got an earful from a furious mother whose son committed suicide.</u>
This video is from CNN, broadcast Feb. 19, 2011 </div></div>
link (http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/02/scumbag-judge-behind-cash-for-kids-scheme-gets-an-earful/)
Scum of the earth IMO.
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Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was accused of taking $2.8 million in bribes and kickbacks for putting juveniles into detention centers owned by friends.
The jury in Scranton found him guilty of racketeering, money-laundering conspiracy, fraud and filing false income tax returns.
The jury found him not guilty, however, of seven counts of extortion and 10 counts of bribery.
The former judge faces a maximum sentence of 157 years in prison. The jury also ruled he must forfeit $997,600 </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">‘Scumbag!’: Judge behind ‘cash for kids’ scheme gets an earful
In the trials of those behind the “kids for cash” scheme discussed in Michael Moore’s film Capitalism: A Love Story, one recently convicted judge, <u>who sentenced countless innocent children to a private juvenile detention center, recently got an earful from a furious mother whose son committed suicide.</u>
This video is from CNN, broadcast Feb. 19, 2011 </div></div>
link (http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/02/scumbag-judge-behind-cash-for-kids-scheme-gets-an-earful/)
Scum of the earth IMO.
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