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Local paper revealed kickback probe months ago

By Mark Obbie

Like many readers of The New York Times, I was shocked to read today of the judicial scandal in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where two judges stand convicted of taking millions in kickbacks for sending juveniles to a privately owned lockup. But local residents have had quite a while to get used to the shock, thanks to long-running, hard-hitting coverage of the federal investigation by Dave Janoski and his colleagues at the Citizens Voice. Since at least last June, the paper has documented the trajectory and focus of the probe (here are early stories on search warrants that brought the probe to the surface, supplemented with a bunch of journalistic digging through public documents). And, now that it's national news, the Citizen Voice is throwing all it has at the story, including reporting on efforts to get the courthouse back on its feet.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).