President Joe Biden this week granted clemency to the former Pennsylvania judge, Michael Conahan, as part of a mass commutation covering nearly 1,500 people who had been released on home ...

Ex-Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called “Kids-for-Cash” scandal, was among 1,499 commutations Biden granted in the largest presidential act of clemency on a single day.

In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Conahan and Judge Mark Ciavarella shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from a ...

Michael Conahan, the disgraced former Luzerne County judge convicted in the "Kids for Cash" scandal, had his sentence commuted by President Joe Biden, the White House announced on Thursday, Dec. 12.

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Former Judge Michael Conahan, a judge at the helm of the infamous 'Kids for Cash' scandal, was among the nearly 1,500 individuals whose sentences were commuted by President ...

Former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan arrives at the United States Courthouse in Scranton, Friday September 23, 2011, for sentencing. Conahan was sentenced to a term of 17 and 1/2 years on a ...

President Joe Biden has faced criticism from victims of the so-called "Kids for Cash" scandal for commuting the sentence of a Pennsylvania judge involved in the scheme.. Michael Conahan was among ...

Some victims of the “kids-for-cash” scandal have publicly criticized Joe Biden in the wake of Michael Conahan’s commutation. | Susan Walsh/AP By Adam Cancryn 12/13/2024 06:04 PM EST ...

Former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called “Kids-for-Cash” scandal, was among 1,499 commutations the 82-year-old lame-duck president granted in the ...

President Joe Biden's commutation of former Luzerne County judge Michael Conahan sentence in the "Kids for Cash" case outraged many. But, the whistleblower in the case has a different perspective.