No word on exactly why he’s resigning, but the papers are reporting it is connected to the ongoing federal corruption probe, in which two members of the Wilkes-Barre Area School Board have been charged of accepting bribes.
While on the Times Leader‘s site, I hit their “Luzerne County Judges” special section which lists all the articles they published on the kids-for-cash scandal, when the page loaded I found the ads that they are running on that page to be, well…. ironic. I guess they feel Conahan and Civarella will need some help in their defense.