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  • Feds indict W-B Area president (facilitated bribe for teaching job)

    09/16/2009 6:36:53 AM PDT · by Born Conservative · 1 replies · 134+ views
    Frank Pizzella Jr. on Tuesday became the third Wilkes-Barre Area School Board member and the second sitting board president to be charged with corruption in five months. A federal grand jury handed down an indictment claiming that, in 2004 – before he was on the school board – Pizzella acted as both go-between and facilitator when a school board member got a $5,000 bribe to help hire someone as a teacher. The indictment reads like a mini spy novel without names, other than Pizzella’s. It outlines an alleged “conspiracy” that took place between Jan. 2, 2004, and Dec. 2, 2004,...