A judge is effectively reinstating a $1 million penalty against a former Pennsylvania House speaker after the state’s highest court threw it out as part of a 2012 corruption sentence.

Pennlive.com reported that a Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas judge imposed the new $1 million penalty May 30 against John Perzel under a law that targets the pensions of state officials convicted of committing crimes on the job.

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