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(More details on Corbett's subpoena of Twitter HARRISBURG — The Attorney General's Office is recommending up to three years and eight months in prison for the first defendant in a legislative corruption scandal to face sentencing, and says his anonymous use of a website to criticize prosecutors shows lack of remorse. Brett Cott, former legislative analyst for ex-Democratic Whip Mike Veon, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday by Dauphin County Judge Richard Lewis. Cott was convicted with Veon and another aide, Annamarie Perretta-Rosepink, in March. Veon and Rosepink will be sentenced next month. Cott was convicted of three felonies: theft,...

Trouble Brewing?(Fun and Games in the Great Socialist Cesspool of PA) By: Bob Bauder and Stephanie Waite - Times Staff 03/12/06 A three-month Times investigation revealed the Beaver Falls-based Beaver Initiative for Growth also has never been audited until this year, and has awarded lucrative contracts to campaign donors. The operations of BIG, which Veon and LaValle created 14 years ago, run contrary to accepted standards for economic development organizations and nonprofits alike, according to officials in those fields. In an arrangement one nonprofit observer described as "highly irregular," BIG's board of directors until recently had only two members: Veon...