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In 2011, Michael Conahan was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison after he and another judge, Mark Ciavarella, were found guilty of accepting $2.8m in illegal payments in exchange for sending more than 2,300 children – including some as young as eight years old – to private juvenile detention centers.

if you’re unfamiliar with the backstory of this “kids-for-cash” scandal, yes that is an accurate name for it. here’s the Wikipedia article about it.

  • While I wish he had a longer sentence, he was coming up on the end of his, and he was already living at home due to being part of the white-collar convicts sent home for house arrest during COVID.

    I also highly doubt Biden was briefed on every one of the 1500 people he commuted in those 2 days.