From MSN News:
President Joe Biden this week granted clemency to a former Luzerne County judge convicted in the infamous “kids for cash” scheme to send children to for-profit detention centers in exchange for kickbacks.
Michael Conahan, now 72, was sentenced to 17½ years in prison in 2011 in connection with the judicial scandal, which the FBI described as the “worst in Pennsylvania’s history.”
He and a second judge, Mark Ciavarella, were charged with accepting $2.8 million in kickbacks for diverting hundreds of children to PA Child Care and Western PA Child Care, two for-profit juvenile facilities. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court tossed out the convictions for about 2,300 children whose cases were affected by the scandal, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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