When Robert Powell showed up at Mark Ciavarella’s judicial chambers in the fall of 2003, he was met with news that surprised him.

The money — nearly a million dollars — sent to Ciavarella and fellow judge Michael T. Conahan by builder Robert K. Mericle in January of that year was gone, Powell told a federal jury in Scranton Wednesday.

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