Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks have been ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they ...

PHILADELPHIA - While he was found guilty on the most egregious charges at the heart of his case, including racketeering, former Luzerne County Common Pleas Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. escaped a ...

Motion filed says ex-judge doesn’t have funds to pay lawyer to argue civil suits. SCRANTON – Former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan no longer has the financial means to pay a law firm that’s ...

Another great moment in the privatization of government services. This one comes from Pennsylvania, where judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan are accused of obtaining bribes of $2.6 million in ...

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - A former northeastern Pennsylvania judge admitted Tuesday that he was deep in debt and living beyond his means when he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the builder ...