He also ordered him off to prison immediately. Ciavarella and his co-defendant, Judge Michael Conahan, were charged in the scandal in 2009. They ended up entering a guilty plea, but Judge Kosik ...

I have taken responsibility for my actions since the first day.'' MICHAEL CONAHAN, 72, OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA Conahan was sentenced to 17 years in prison for helping orchestrate one of the ...

The White House commuted the sentence of the judge at the center of a notorious “kids-for-cash” scandal without considering the specifics of his case, beyond whether it fit into a broad set of ...