Posted on 01/24/2010 12:45:51 PM PST by ColdOne
Print ShareThisWILKES-BARRE, Pa. — After a six-year run in the NFL, Greg Skrepenak came home to Pennsylvania and parlayed his name recognition and hometown popularity into a seat on the Luzerne County Board of Commissioners.
He'd campaigned as a reformer. It turns out he was anything but. Prosecutors charged him last month with accepting $5,000 in gifts from a developer seeking public financing of a condominium project. He is scheduled to plead guilty on Tuesday.
Another day, another fallen politician in the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania, where FBI agents and federal prosecutors have spent the past year rooting out government corruption in a hardscrabble region known for its pay-to-play politics, suspicion of outsiders and resistance to political change.
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Hmmm...Associated Press...not one mention of political party...
I grew up in PA. The mob was big in Philly and the NE.
Teachers have had to paper clip a check (bribe) to their applications to teach all the way back to the 70s and probably before. People spend tremendous amounts of money in Wilkes-Barre to run for public offices that pay nothing. There is a reason...
I believe any elected official of the last five years is at risk” of prosecution, he added. “I don’t think many of them truly know what they can and cannot do.”
I am an elected Official 50 miles south of them and I am sure we know what we can and can’t do. Taking 5k from a Developer is a big can’t.
No one does something for nothing especially a liberal.
He’s a Raider.
“Just win, Baby”
; )
They got away with killing the entire Yablonski family and got pinning it on Tony Boyle. He insisted he had no part in it. The thugs that did it lied.
“A Senate seat is a valuable thing, you don’t just give it away for nothing.”
Does Big Coal have its own mob??
The mob owned trash, cable, hotels, unions, and hung around Philly and other city NE areas. They were not really in the coal business except for the worker.
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