Two years after the disclosure that Luzerne County officials spent thousands of dollars on overnight trips to New York City, Commissioner Greg Skrepenak still defends the trips he says were supposed to bring New York-style crime fighting to Luzerne County. Skrepenak also denies knowledge that two retired New York City police detectives involved with those trips had business ties to county contracts now being investigated by the FBI and the county solicitor. William Maguire - a retired Wilkes-Barre police captain who has agreed to cooperate with federal investigators and pleaded guilty to taking a bribe - organized the New York...