Michael Conahan, the disgraced former Luzerne County judge convicted in the "Kids for Cash" scandal, had his sentence commuted by President Joe Biden, the White House announced on Thursday, Dec. 12.

Conahan, now 72, was convicted in 2011 alongside fellow former judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., 74. Both men orchestrated a scheme to funnel juvenile defendants to privately operated, for-profit ...