Given the allegations within the post, this is a matter which should be referred to the DA's office with jurisdiction over the hospital or where your "friend" resides. If in 2 separate counties, send to both county DA's plus the state AG's office.

I'm more concerned about the slow-walk the Disciplinary Board took in revoking the law licenses of the Conahan and Ciavarella. They were indicted in January 2009. Both were removed from any judicial activities a week or so later.

Although convicted in 2011, the SCOPA did not disbar Ciavarella until late 2019. He was only temporarily suspended in 2012. Typically, an attorney convicted of DUI will lose the license in less than a year after conviction. Ciavarella was allowed to resign - with no mention of the conviction in the Order! - upon submission in August of 2019. The delay appears to be the result of his numerous appeals of the conviction. https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/disciplinary-board/2019/no-1843-disciplinary-docket-no-3.html

Conahan resigned from full-time duties in Jan 2008, thereafter becoming a senior judge (essentially part-time). He initially plead guilty to the indictment, withdrew the plea, only to later again plea guilty. He was sentenced in September 2011 to a country club facility in Florida.

The criminal cases were based on the corrupt acts of Conahan and Ciavarella during the 2003 to 2008 time period. Because of Ciavarella's playing of the system (guilty plea early withdrawn later, then trial, then numerous appeals over the course of nearly a decade), the civil cases were hampered, indeed stalled due to the uncertainty in Ciaveralla's case. Most of his convictions were tossed.

A long slog of a mess, to be sure, but the delayed outcomes are exactly as they should be. No one will miss those 2 once they are gone.

One interesting thing about the case pertains to retaining parts of the files of the juveniles affected. With the conclusion of the civil cases, I hope these files become shredded into dust. https://web.archive.org/web/20110531135345/http://www.aopc.org/OpPosting/Supreme/out/81mm2008FinalReport.pdf (2nd full para on p. 3)

His numerous RTKL filings have helped public schools more than he knows. School employees' personal info, for instance, is more secure now than when he first started his garbage a decade ago. His war on teachers' collective bargaining units is pretty much done thanks to various court rulings. Dud loves to lose.

Forfeiture laws have changed.

It remains a win for those who filed the civil suit. Also applies to future earnings. Wives, or ex-wives, whichever, will have to adjust.

>PSBA is finally pushing out some “revised” policies that reiterate what a board should and should not do.

imho, PSBA is more about getting school boards to work with school administrators than they are about representing the school board point of view. Only useful thing they've done over the past decade is making Simon Campbell chew on his toenails.

Paywalled.

No.

They did not go in poor. They got paid for their part in the scheme. Time to make them disgorge their assets and to live on meager social security benefits.

"On January 9, 2018, federal judge Christopher C. Conner
threw out [former Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas judge Mark] Ciavarella's convictions for racketeering, conspiracy to
commit racketeering, and conspiracy to commit money laundering on
appeal. Conner upheld Civarella's contention that his attorneys failed
to raise statute of limitations claims on those charges. He ordered a new trial on those counts, but allowed the honest services fraud convictions to stand.[27]
On January 24, 2020, prosecutors formally notified the court that they
would not seek to retry Ciaverella on these three counts. In response,
Ciavarella's defense attorneys sought a reduction of his prison
sentence, which was rejected."

Michael Conahan was the president judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. He was sentenced to serve seventeen-and-a-half years in prison for his part in the "kids for cash" scandal. Due to coronavirus concerns, Conahan was released on a temporary furlough on June 19, 2020, and was last reported to be in home confinement

>They let one of the criminals out because of covid.

He is not deserving of being called "judge."

I've done my time so, no, I am not surprised. I've watched a local district where the Marino-financed BOD allows non-school business to be discussed at meetings all the time, including furries, election denial, etc. BOD members appear to not be aware that the meetings are the business meetings of the district which allows limited public participation (meaning, the public comments portion present a limited public forum). Poor job of education by PSBA, imho.

Moms for Fascism you mean, right?

The policy appears to violate a couple of federal laws. Surely the school board cannot be that stupid.

Trying to help you not waste your money. Not as if you are the only person to ever consider pet insurance.

Waste of money.

Cobscook is a great place to camp, watch ospreys, dig for clams, hike to the island at low tide, etc.

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/parks/trail_activities/cobscook_trail_conditions.shtml

https://downsizingmakescents.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Cobscook.pdf

Preservation and conservation as you use them are marketing terms.

Preservation and conservation as I use them are "selling/gifting" of development rights under the tax code or pursuant to ag regs, ie, preserving the family farm (conservation easement) or keeping nature natural (C.R.E.P. program).

Stewardship of tree farms is somewhat related, but not really.

I believe commercial tree farms are not eligible for preservation or conservation easements. But they are for stewardship and, I believe, CREP. Woodlots, on the other hand, are treated differently. Not exactly sure why but it's been awhile since I've looked at the regs or other program language.

It's a fake PhD. Essentially paper-milled.

There's a beer store, a tire place, a sheetz, bunch of fast food, a goodwill store, AJ's with the awesome striped bass dish, an auto parts store, closets place. A car dealership.

Oh, you were maybe looking for a Macy's ro something fancy?

>It's not who I voted for, it's matching the picture of my ballot to how it was counte

Same thing, non? "the picture of your ballot" shows exactly who you voted for.

>I don’t see why we don’t vote using social sec numbers

Privacy issues. We could be assigned voter ID numbers when registering but I believe OP is asking for much more than that. If he cannot remember who he voted for, that's his problem.

"We hate the people in Washington,, D.C., but let's pay big money to a big Washington, D.C. firm to tell us we hate the people in Washington, D.C."

Glen Bolger: "Prior to co‑founding Public Opinion Strategies, Glen was the Director of Survey Research & Analysis for the National Republican Congressional Committee, the political arm of the House Republican Conference."

Glen will tell them exactly the lie they want to hear: that they did not fuck up the PA executive row elections.

btw, Public Opinion Strategies is not a "big D.C. firm." Maybe 25 employees?

The only good republicans are the ones who do not have their heads stuck high and hard up benedict donald's backside. Unfortunately, too few and far between.