The legacy of two former Luzerne County Common Pleas Court judges who were sentenced to serve federal prison terms in the wake of a judicial scandal continues to work its way through the court system with a Superior Court decision last week in a case in which plaintiffs unsuccessfully argued that a property reverted to them because it was not used as a bank as required under the property deed.
In June 2010, the state Supreme Court remanded the case to be considered for a second time by a trial judge for the “appearance of judicial impropriety” because former Luzerne County Common Pleas Court Judge Mark A. Ciavarella presided over the case of Malinowski v. Nanticoke Micro Technologies Inc . even though one of the co-defendants, First National Community Bank, provided financing to the entity owned by Ciavarella’s wife and the wife of Ciavarella’s co-conspirator, former Luzerne County Common Pleas Court Judge Michael T. Conahan. The former judges were accused by federal authorities of accepting $2.8 million in kickbacks in relation to two juvenile detention facilities and were sentenced to federal prison.
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