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NANTICOKE: Company owned by the congressman's family had $9 million in grants. By JERRY LYNOTT jlynott@leader.net NANTICOKE - For months, equipment and materials from a much-touted company funded by millions of federal dollars and run by nephews of U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski has gathered dust in an unheated basement garage under a bowling alley. The assets of Cornerstone Technologies are stored on pallets and behind a plywood wall in the dirty and dark underground parking lot of the LS Bowl-A-Rama on Prospect Street. Owner George Ellis, a family friend of the congressman and his nephews, said Tuesday the equipment and...

Dogged by controversies, Cornerstone eyes future By JERRY LYNOTT jlynott@leader.net TECHNOLOGY WILKES-BARRE - The last of its federal contracts awarded, Cornerstone Technologies has warehoused its equipment and idled its staff. The future of the company - held up as an example of the high-tech firms Northeastern Pennsylvania wants to attract - now depends upon its own success in the marketplace. But the head of the research and development company that has received more than $9 million in government funds since 1999 insists Cornerstone is still viable. "Nothing has changed. The company is ongoing," said Peter Kanjorski, president and chief executive...