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Two Pennsylvania judges ordered to pay $200m to kids-for-cash scandal victims
The Guardian ^ | 8/17/2022 | Guardian

Posted on 08/18/2022 5:54:08 PM PDT by CodeToad

Two Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200m to hundreds who fell victim to their crimes.

US district judge Christopher Conner awarded $106m in compensatory damages and $100m in punitive damages to nearly 300 people in a long-running civil suit against the judges, writing the plaintiffs are “the tragic human casualties of a scandal of epic proportions”.

In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8m in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: markciavarella; michaelconahan
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More judicial corruption caught and, surprise, punished.
1 posted on 08/18/2022 5:54:08 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

I remember when this story was current. It sure takes a long time for things to crank through the system.

Do the judges have $200 million?


2 posted on 08/18/2022 5:56:15 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: Tax-chick

No idea but I always thought a court never ordered restitution unless there was an expectation of that ability.


3 posted on 08/18/2022 5:57:01 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

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4 posted on 08/18/2022 5:57:37 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: CodeToad

Sounds like a libtard scam


5 posted on 08/18/2022 5:58:32 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Tax-chick

Absolutely not.


6 posted on 08/18/2022 5:59:28 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: NWFree

These judges got kickbacks for sentencing juveniles to the taxpayer funded facilities.

If that’s what they do with children what are corrupt judges doing when they send adults to prison?


7 posted on 08/18/2022 6:00:25 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: CodeToad

The article says their income from the scam was $2millionish. Where does the rest come from?


8 posted on 08/18/2022 6:04:44 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: CodeToad

These are two corrupt Democrap judges.


9 posted on 08/18/2022 6:08:24 PM PDT by rod5591
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To: Tax-chick

Often insurance and expected future earnings, not to mention current holdings.


10 posted on 08/18/2022 6:10:49 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: Tax-chick

P.S. Restitution can now also be tax deductible. :)


11 posted on 08/18/2022 6:12:21 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: CodeToad

Maybe they had insurance as judges. I can’t imagine there being a private policy.


12 posted on 08/18/2022 6:20:11 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: CodeToad

I am trying to understand what exactly was wrong here...

These were “guilty” kids right? and... this was being offered as an alternative to jail I assume right?

who exactly is the victim here?


13 posted on 08/18/2022 6:22:26 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: CodeToad
>>punished

This is a civil case.

Was there a prior criminal conviction?

14 posted on 08/18/2022 6:25:04 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: CodeToad

Wow, that is one of the most evil things I’ve ever heard. You have expectations that judges will be fair and unbiased in their judging. To convict CHILDREN and send them to for-profit jails for massive kick-backs is horrendous. Those guys should swing.


15 posted on 08/18/2022 6:27:02 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Seriously?

Were the kids really guilty? Or did he convict them wrongly to send them to the for-profit jail for kickbacks.

Even IF they were guilty, sending convicted criminals to for-profit jails for kickbacks is reprehensible.

I’d easily believe that they found the kids “guilty” to fee the jail system and collect their kickbacks.


16 posted on 08/18/2022 6:29:23 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
>>what exactly was wrong here…

There were prior threads here on FR awhile back. Do not know the keys word(s) to find them.

Recall that kids were sentenced greater than their infractions and crimes.

17 posted on 08/18/2022 6:32:11 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: rod5591

“These are two corrupt Democrap judges.”

But you repeat yourself.

CC


18 posted on 08/18/2022 6:37:11 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

how is that any different than a policeman giving out tickets to meet a quota?

or police who confiscate drug dealers stuff to fund their departments

there are lots of situations where government officials benefit directly or indirectly from enforcing laws.

Now if it can be proven they found innocent people guilty, then yeah, lock them up. But if it was either this or a REAL JAIL. I would suspect the kids were happy to have been offered this alternative.


19 posted on 08/18/2022 6:51:06 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

No, no, no, no and no.


20 posted on 08/18/2022 7:09:32 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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