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> ... received more than $2.6 million ... > ... forced to pay $1 million ... Moral: crime pays.

• pstuart 13y ago
  There are limited shopping options in prison.
  • drcube 13y ago
    At least his kids' futures are secured. Good job, dad.
    • tracker1 13y ago
      Just as long as they don't mouth off to their teachers online...
• jack-r-abbit 13y ago
  > ... Ciavarella and his colleague, Judge Michael Conahan, received more than $2.6 million ... > ... He was also forced to pay $1 million ... We don't know his cut of the $2.6M or what the other guy's fine is/was (assuming other guy also has to pay). But yes... they basically just had to give the money back. (And go to prison for a bit)
• x0x0 13y ago
  sentences: this judge, Ciavarella, got 28 years; the other judge, Conahan, who not only sold kids but also helped prevent use of the county's facility, got 17.5 years in prison; [2] Robert Powell, an attorney that passed the bribes and part owner of the facility, got 18mos in prison and $60k in fines (it is unclear how much he will serve), plus he gets to serve in Miami to be close to his family. He did apparently cooperate and wear a wire. [2] Robert Mericle, the real estate developer who built the two facilities, paid $2.15MM to fund childrens' health programs and will likely serve 1 year or even just probation; And then you read, from the wiki article [1], "Sandy Fonzo, whose son Edward Kenzakoski committed suicide after Ciavarella gave him a jail sentence, despite Kenzakoski's first-time offender status" and I sit here amazed. Millions of dollars of theft, bribes accepted not only for children but in cases as well, children sold for cash, children pushed into suicide... I'd say all of them got a slap on the wrist. The other thing, unremarked upon by the wiki article, is I wonder who else knew about this? Just like Annie Dookhan, who was faking drug test results in Boston and sent hundreds at least to prison, possibly tainting thirty four thousand verdicts, or Jonathan Salvador, who was doing similar things in texas [4], tainting five thousand convictions, I'd bet good money there where people who saw this happening. Did you read some of the convictions? "He once sentenced a teen to three months in jail for creating a MySpace page that mocked her school’s assistant principal." Many of these fucking pigs knew what was going on, knew how to fuck a kid who was mouthy or didn't kiss their asses and send them to the judge that would send the kid up the river. Moral: never trust a pig. from [4] Worse yet, the lab Salvador worked for knew he was doing a bad job for years. A DPS investigative commission found that Salvador was asked to correct mistakes in about a third of all the tests he ran. Periodic job evaluations noted that Salvador struggled with an overall understanding of chemistry and that his problems were very systemic and his work right on the edge of tolerable, though not catastrophic. It could probably be described as catastrophic now. Twenty cases have been overturned so far, voiding almost 160 years of prison sentences. If all of Salvador's cases are thrown out, which is looking more likely, the lost sentences will total more than 10,000 years. In Walker County, DA David Weeks has already given up. His office tried to retest evidence from Salvador's cases, but the results were haphazard, Weeks told the Hunstville Item. In a case where [Salvador] said there was drugs, there wouldnt be. And when he said there were no drugs, there were drugs. "Its clear that all the cases [Salvador] worked on are irreparably damaged, Weeks said. He's already making arrangements to expunge the records of every affected defendant. It blew up in our faces. I'd bet if anyone looked hard enough in the kids for cash trade, there were at best a bunch of other people not seeing what was plain as day in front of them. sources: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal [2] http://citizensvoice.com/18-month-sentence-for-powell-kids-for-cash-financier-and-star-witness-1.1227829 http://citizensvoice.com/18-month-sentence-for-powell-kids-f... [3] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210168/Boston-state-chemist-Annie-Dookhan-arrested-fake-drug-tests-Massachusetts.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210168/Boston-state... [4] http://www.texasobserver.org/fake-lab-results-endanger-thousands-of-drug-convictions/ http://www.texasobserver.org/fake-lab-results-endanger-thous... [5] http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Drug_War_Eats_Itself http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Drug_War_Eats_Itse... edited: I accidentally clicked submit while still editing
  • PhasmaFelis 13y ago
    "I'd say all of them got a slap on the wrist." The two judges are in their 60s. They'll probably die in prison. I'm satisfied with that. The other two fuckers, yeah.
    • siddboots 13y ago
      Regardless of their age, 28 years is more than enough time in prison for any crime.
      • giardini 13y ago
        Yes, perhaps better would be less time + public burning at the stake (or reverse the order), especially in extreme cases where innocents were damaged severely and there is little doubt that the prosecution is unfair. Our society sometimes looks like something Charles Dickens wrote about (or worse). Bringing back the old punishments (drawing & quartering, hanging, etc.) might help, but I doubt it.
        • eru 13y ago
          How about caning?
          • giardini 13y ago
            "How about caning?" A Brit once told me that it was very effective in helping one to focus. He claimed that his caning in mathematics class was responsible for his Ph.D. in math.
            • eru 13y ago
              Actually I thought of the caning they use in Singapore as a form of punishment for crimes. Pretty cruel, but I guess it beats getting raped in American prisons.
        • Graham24 13y ago
• mike-cardwell 13y ago
  No amount of money is worth 28 years in jail.
  • sliverstorm 13y ago
    How about enough money to pay off your mafia creditors who are out for your head?
    • protomyth 13y ago
      trading one kind of death for another
      • sliverstorm 13y ago
        Prison isn't awesome, but you can still study all sorts of things, expand your mind, and you get out at the end. I don't really see why 28 years in the pen "might as well be dead".
        • Zakharov 13y ago
          If he serves the full 28 years, he's not likely to survive the sentence.
        • mixmastamyk 13y ago
          The defendents appear to be in their 60s.
  • arthulia 13y ago
    I wonder if he'll have to serve the full sentence.