[gplayer href="http://www.scottsanfilippo.com/wp-content/audio/blog-billbrace.mp3" ] [/gplayer] Like an episode of the HBO series The Sopranos, another gangster thug in Luzerne County has been nabbed. This time it’s “Big Billy” Brace the county’s former Deputy Clerk. Brace plead guilty today to accepting a $1,500 tailor-made suit in exchange for helping a contractor win a contract with Luzerne County. [...]

Today’s Citizens Voice newspaper is reporting on one hell of a deal Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. got on a flight from Pennsylvania to Florida. The other day, I blogged about Olszewski and his visit with convicted drug dealer Ronald “Snorts” Belletiere and kids-for-cash former judge Mike “I’m Innocent” Conahan at the Florida [...]

The first time I met Peter Paul Olszewski Jr., was when I was in high school. I had an after-school job pumping gas at a local gas station where Peter Paul and his father Peter Paul Sr. had house accounts. The elder was still a practicing judge in Luzerne County and Jr. was a fledgling [...]

I was a little shocked to see today’s Wilkes-Barre, PA Times Leader article on Bobby “Shades” Kulick being granted extra time to report to prison. “Shades” plead guilty to a firearms charge as was sentenced to 37 months in prison. His first day in Club-Fed was scheduled to be before October 21, but a federal [...]