I can’t think up one of my two-title-titles for this post. I can’t even muster up enough words to express my angst for the justice system in Luzerne County. Shortly after 6pm this evening, The Times Leader and Citizens Voice newspapers broke yet another store of a judge gone bad. This time it’s Senior Judge [...]

Checking In On The Judge The plot thickens in the accident investigation surrounding former Luzerne County President Judge, Chester Muroski. The man in the black robe slid off a slippery Route 115 in Bear Creek Township earlier this week damaging his car and taking out a mailbox. He vehemently denies that he was intoxicated but [...]

He almost made it. “He” is former Luzerne County President Judge and now Senior Judge, Chester Muroski and he almost made it into retirement without making headlines. But slick roads and “one, maybe two” drinks did him in. I was going to let Chester’s moment in the spotlight pass by. After all, this is the [...]

Today’s news was filled with so many items worthy of commentary, I’d need more hours in the day to spew my words of wisdom. So in a departure from the norm, I’m going to address several at once. The Wilkes-Barre Area School Board President is a Gangster I wish I could have been at the [...]

South Florida is quickly turning into the Ponzi Scheme capital of the world. First there was Bernie Madoff, now there’s Scott Rothstein. Rothstein is accused of running a $1.2 billion scheme as well as creating a web of business interests and investments that the feds are currently clawing their way through. In addition to screwing [...]

We all knew it was coming. I wrote about it, news outlets fed the speculation, talk radio lines were buzzing and it was all just a matter of time. “It” was the guilty plea entered by yet another Luzerne County Judge. The third gangster judge, and the 20th person, to be charged in the ongoing [...]

Last week I wrote about former Luzerne County deputy clerk Bill Brace and how “Big Billy” was the 19th politician to plead guilty to corruption. Brace got nailed for accepting a $1,500 custom tailored suit in exchange for making sure a contractor secured a contract with the county. This week things have gotten interesting and [...]

[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. [...]

It was an innocent picture. Four guys smiling, having a few drinks together. The only problem was, two of the guys were judges, one an attorney and one a convicted drug dealer. It was a Molotov cocktail in the making. One of the judges in the now infamous photo was none other than gangster judge [...]

So I’m catching up on the morning news and I hit the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader‘s website. After reading about the latest developments in the kids for cash scandal involving former Luzerne County gangster judges, Michael Conahan and Mark “Scooch” Ciavarella, I checked out their “Employers of Choice” feature. I was expecting to see a bunch [...]