Biden commuted remaining sentence for PA judge involved in the ‘Kids for Cash’ scandal.

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Oh my gosh... this is so wrong. This corrupt needs to be in prison. Victims are beyond pissed off and are now demanding Biden's Speedway and Street in Pennsylvania be removed.

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The Inquirer, PA local, 12/12/24:

A former Pennsylvania judge who was convicted of sending children to jail while receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from the facility’s operator in the early 2000s was one of the nearly 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted Thursday by President Joe Biden.

Michael Conahan had been sentenced to 17½ years in federal prison after being convicted of racketeering conspiracy for his role in the so-called Kids for Cash scandal in Luzerne County. Conahan pulled funding from a county-owned juvenile detention center there and agreed to send juveniles to a for-profit facility in exchange for payments, a scheme that netted him and fellow jurist Mark Ciavarella nearly $3 million.

Conahan, who was convicted in 2011, had been serving his sentence in a Florida facility and was due to be released in 2026. But he was placed in home confinement in 2020 due to the pandemic.

All those commuted by Biden on Thursday had been placed in home confinement for at least a year, the White House said.

In addition to those whose sentences were commuted, Biden pardoned 39 people who were convicted of nonviolent crimes. The White House said his actions represented the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.

White House press secretary Karine-Jean Pierre signaled on Dec. 2 that Biden would announce more pardons at the end of his term, a typical practice among presidents leaving office.

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