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Citizens Voice
February 19, 2018
From the federal prosecutions of former Lackawanna County Commissioners Robert Cordaro and A.J. Munchak, former Luzerne County Commissioner Greg Skrepenak and spectacularly corrupt Luzerne County Judges Mark Conahan and Mark Ciavarella, to previous state-level prosecutions of prisonÃâà...
wnep.com
January 22, 2018
WILKES-BARRE TOWNSHIP -- A woman from Luzerne County has just written her first novel. It's had some initial success already, selling out more than once at an area Barnes and Noble store. "The Devil's Song" is a mystery, and it's fiction, but the writer admits she was influenced by real-life events thatÃâà...
PA home page
January 9, 2018
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)- What's next for the kids-for-cash judge Mark Ciavarella? That's the question many people are asking after a federal judge threw out three of his 12 convictions. Ciavarella is serving up to 28 years in prison after being convicted in 2011 in connectionÃâà...
PA home page
January 8, 2018
(WBRE/WYOU-TV) There are big developments regarding the appeal of former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella. A federal judge has decided to throw out three of the counts Ciavarella was convicted on saying he should go to trial on them a second time. Ciavarella was convicted on 12 total chargesÃâà...
wnep.com
September 22, 2017
Kingston attorney Vito DeLuca was Luzerne County solicitor during the FBI's raid on that county's court annex in Wilkes-Barre in 2008, which led to the indictments of "kids-for-cash" judges, Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella. In yesterday's raid in Scranton, DeLuca says extra troopers were likelyÃâà...
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
September 16, 2017
Mark Ciavarella had every right to appeal the conviction that put him in jail for the last six years, and — if not overturned — will keep him there another 22. That doesn't make him right when he claims he shouldn't be where he is. Ciavarella has been the master of denial since the moment he got entangled inÃâà...
PA home page
September 14, 2017
HARRISBURG, DAUPHIN COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)- Disgraced "kids for cash" judge Mark Ciavarella insists his lawyers failed him at his trial and as a result he should get a new trial. That argument is at the very core of Ciavaralla's appeal to have his 2011 conviction overturned. His former lawyers admittedÃâà...
PA home page
September 13, 2017
Now, Mark Ciavarella wants his conviction tossed out. The convicted felon and former judge sent thousands of kids to detention centers in exchange for financial kickbacks. Juveniles who never should have been sent away. Ciavarella is serving a 28 year prison sentence, but he wants out, saying his rightsÃâà...
NBC 10 Philadelphia
July 28, 2017
A former Pennsylvania judge serving a 28-year prison term for a scandal that became known as "kids for cash'' has secured an appeals hearing to overturn some of his convictions. An evidentiary hearing is set for Sept. 14 in Harrisburg. Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella was convicted ofÃâà...
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
December 31, 1999
After securing a new trial on three charges tied to the Kids for Cash scandal, former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella now wants other convictions overturned. But a day after Ciavarella filed his motion, the U.S. Attorney's Office on Thursday made a request of its own. Prosecutors informed U.S. DistrictÃâà...
