{"id":185256,"date":"2011-08-22T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/22\/i-thought-that-i-had-already-posted-this\/"},"modified":"2011-08-22T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T02:34:00","slug":"i-thought-that-i-had-already-posted-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/22\/i-thought-that-i-had-already-posted-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I Thought That I Had Already Posted This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Luzerne County Court Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., who took bribes from private prison companies to send kids to jail, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/127521938.html\">sentenced to 28 years in jail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As his moment of sentencing drew near Thursday, former Luzerne County Court Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. was still trying to minimize his crimes. No way, he said, had he sold &#8220;kids for cash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor would have none of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In essence, Mr. Ciavarella&#8217;s argument is, &#8216;I was not selling kids retail,&#8217; &#8221; Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon A.D. Zubrod said. &#8220;We agree with that. He was <b>selling them wholesale<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, U.S. District Judge Edwin M. Kosik slammed Ciavarella, 61, with 28 years in prison. It appeared to be the longest federal prison sentence ever given in a U.S. political corruption case.<\/p>\n<p>In the Scranton area, Ciavarella was a key target among many in a sweeping and still-ongoing federal corruption probe. Prosecutors have brought charges against nearly 30 officials, including two other judges, numerous court officials, a former state senator, school board members, and county officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>It may be a record long sentence, but it is not long enough.<\/p>\n<p>His partner in crime, county president judge Michael T. Conahan, has already pled guilty, and is awaiting sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, he gets a sentence of similar length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Luzerne County Court Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., who took bribes from private prison companies to send kids to jail, was sentenced to 28 years in jail: As his moment of sentencing drew near Thursday, former Luzerne County Court Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. was still trying to minimize his crimes. No way, he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}