Judges’ Kids-for-Cash Scandal Was Allowed Under Conspiracy of Silence, says Author.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

2. These judges, as you say, have destroyed lives. Good for the PD and the prosecutor who spoke up.

More from the ABA article Town Without Pity:

"Not only do authorities say it went on for as many as five years; they also claim it was so blatant that they are astonished almost no one—including the lawyers who regularly practiced there—were willing to stand up and speak out about what was going on in Luzerne County.

What is described in interviews, public records and court documents is a culture in which lawyers famously went along to get along rather than push back against a judge who openly and notoriously violated the law he was sworn to uphold—even when those violations af­fected the lives of children. And the heart and soul of that—even its spokesman—was Ciavarella."

http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/town_without_pity/