The Commonwealth Court has upheld the forfeiture of a former magisterial district judge’s pension, rejecting the argument that because he was an inactive senior judge at the time of his involvement in the Philadelphia Traffic Court corruption scandal, he was not a judge or public official whose pension could be at risk.
Kenneth N. Miller had retired from his role as a magisterial district judge in January 2006, but served as a senior MDJ on the Philadelphia Traffic Court from 2006 to 2008. It was in 2011, when Miller was not acting as a senior magisterial district judge, that a Delaware County court clerk asked Miller if he knew anyone at the Philadelphia Traffic Court who could help her with a traffic citation her son received. Miller mailed the citation with a note stating, “please advise,” to the director of courtroom operations for the Traffic Court. The citation was later dismissed.
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