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Re: 2 corrupt Pennsylvania judges made millions in kickbacks by sentencing youths to private prisons |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Fri Feb 13 18:52:02 2009, in response to Re: 2 corrupt Pennsylvania judges made millions in kickbacks by sentencing youths to private prisons, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Fri Feb 13 18:44:02 2009. Don't you have to give kickbacks to be a judge in certain districts there?The standard route to being a state judge - including New York - involves donating money to the Party, supporting it, and getting your wealthy friends and patrons to do the same. In that sense, state judges pay the Party and its leadership for their seats. The rumor is that PA is far worse than most states in that their political hacks are really very political hacks. These judges RECEIVED kickbacks in millions of dollars for shunting youth prison business to a private firm and then sentencing like there's no tomorrow. They got paid by the corporation in question through what looks like a money laundering arrangement where this dummy corporation was set up as a funnel. So there's a lot of foul here. It's not your ordinary stuff where state court judges pay the Party to be seated. It's stuff where judges decide cases to raise the money that they couldn't earn in practice. |
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