Former Luzerne judge Conahan sentenced to 17.5 years
STAFF REPORTPublished: September 23, 2011
Times-Tribune, Pennsylvania
Former Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison this morning in the kids-for-cash case.
He was also fined $20,100 and ordered to pay $874,000 in restitution.
Conahan pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy for accepting $2.8 million from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit detention centers that housed county juvenile offenders. He faced maximum sentence of 20 years.
Read more: http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/former-luzerne-judge-conahan-sentenced-to-17-5-years-1.1207994
These "courts" are the AMERICAN version of the Volksgerichtshof [I'm guessing, because I can't find it, the pronunciation may be "volks-garish-awff"]
The People's Court (German: Volksgerichtshof) was a court established in 1934 by German dictator Adolf Hitler, who had been dissatisfied with the outcome of the Reichstag Fire Trial (all but one of the accused were acquitted). The "People's Court" was set up outside the operations of the constitutional frame of law. The court had jurisdiction over a rather broad array of "political offenses"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksgerichtshof
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