Since attorney Danielle M. Ross became Lackawanna County’s guardian ad litem in 2008, court records show that several litigants and their attorneys petitioned to have Ross removed from their cases. In one instance from early November 2011, an attorney petitioned to have Ross removed from a case in light of media reports of federal and state investigations into the county’s guardian ad litem program and Ross herself, but the petition was denied.
Representing the plaintiff father in Ofcharsky v. Ofcharsky , Carbondale, Pa.-based attorney John J. Cerra filed a petition stating: "The petitioner is informed and believes from newspaper articles that the guardian ad litem is now the subject of two separate investigations. One by a state agency and one by the federal government. It has been reported in one public source that the guardian is a target of a federal investigation.
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