Did Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan take millions in bribes to put kids in prison?
Luzerne County Pennsylvania Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan are scheduled to appear at a federal court hearing during the afternoon of February 12, 2009 and are expected to plead guilty to two counts of fraud. Their plea agreements involves sentences of more than seven years in prison. The judges were charged with taking over $2.5 million in payoffs to send juvenile offenders to two privately run youth detention centers run by PA Child Care LLC and a sister company, Western PA Child Care LLC. The two judges were charged on January 26, 2009 and were removed from the bench by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shortly afterward.
