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390. How did they get away with it?

By Joel Jacobsen

Perhaps the most astonishing thing about the gangster judges of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (see post 389) is how long they got away with it.  It's not like they were sentencing children in secret, or even (if the stories are true) receiving famous mobsters in their chambers in a surreptitious manner.  They were doing it all right out in the open. One clue is suggested by this self-righteously defensive editorial statement from the managing editor of the local newspaper, the Times Reader, explaining why the paper declined to publish a photograph of a sitting judge - the  court administrator, Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. - vacationing in Florida with "convicted drug dealer Ronald Belletiere alongside then president judge Michael T...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).