Former Judge Mark Ciavarella. Photo: Warren Ruda/The Citizens' Voice Court Upholds 28-Year Sentence for 'Kids-for-Cash' Judge Ciavarella
"Ciavarella essentially seeks to parlay the vacatur of three of six grouped counts into a de novo resentencing, to reopen virtually all factual findings made by the jury and the sentencing judge and affirmed on appeal, and to roll the dice in hopes of a more lenient sentence from a different judicial officer," Middle District Judge Christopher Conner wrote.
August 27, 2020 at 10:18 AM
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The original version of this story was published on The Legal Intelligencer
A federal judge has affirmed the 28-year prison sentence for former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella, convicted for his role in the "kids-for-cash" scandal.
Ciavarella, 70, was sentenced in 2011 to 28 years' imprisonment for accepting $2.8 million in kickbacks, along with fellow Judge Michael Conahan, from the builder and former co-owner of a private juvenile detention facility. The sentencing followed a trial at which a jury convicted Ciavarella of 12 of 39 counts of corruption, including racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, honest services mail fraud, money laundering conspiracy and a host of tax fraud charges.
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