NE Pa. lawyer pleads guilty in $2.5M kickback scam (AP)
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NE Pa. lawyer pleads guilty in $2.5M kickback scam (AP)
AP - A northeastern Pennsylvania lawyer has pleaded guilty in federal court to taking part in a $2.5 million kickback scheme involving a pair of corrupt judges.
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Robert Powell, 49, pleaded guilty to concealing a felony and being an accessory after the fact for his role in paying two judges who sentenced juvenile offenders to a pair of private detention facilities he owned.
The Hazleton attorney was charged after former Luzerne County Judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella pleaded guilty in February to accepting the payoffs. The judges' admissions of wrongdoing prompted the state Supreme Court to overturn hundreds of juvenile convictions issued by Ciavarella, ruling the disgraced judge violated the constitutional rights of youth offenders who appeared in his courtroom without lawyers between 2003 and 2008. Powell's attorney, Mark Sheppard, issued a statement saying his client accepted responsibility for his actions and promised full cooperation with authorities. More... NE Pa. lawyer pleads guilty in $2.5M kickback scam - Yahoo! News |
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