The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a public official who was found to have violated the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act can be ordered to pay restitution despite the fact that the financial benefit of his actions went to his son, not to him.

The State Ethics Commission found John Sivick had violated the act when, as supervisor and public works director of Lehman Township in Pike County, he pushed for the township to repeal its nepotism policy and hire his son as a road crew worker; participated in verifying payroll records for township employees, including his son; and filed incomplete statements of financial interests in 2011 and 2014.

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