Dec. 17—WILKES-BARRE — In one of her first actions in office, Rep. Brenda Pugh on Tuesday condemned President Joe Biden and his administration for granting clemency to the "dishonorable ...

Michael Conahan, center, leaves the federal courthouse in Scranton, Pennsylvania., on Thursday, February 12, 2009. [AP Photo/David Kidwell] ...

It’s the kind of question that makes you wonder — and worry. CHRIS KELLY, the Times-Tribune columnist, urges President Biden to revoke Michael Conahan’s pardon.

Biden abused powers with Conahan commutation Editor: Joe Biden, who extols himself as a son of Pennsylvania, dropped a bomb on NEPA recently by commuting the sentence of Luzerne County’s &#82… ...

Pugh said Conahan and former Judge Mark Ciavarella, 76, were found guilty of conspiring to funnel juveniles to for-profit detention facilities in exchange for $2.8 million in kickbacks in 2010.

Former Luzerne County Court Judges Michael Conahan, front left, and Mark Ciavarella, front right, leave the United States District Courthouse in Scranton, Pa., on Sept. 15, 2009.

My jaw dropped when I saw Michael Conahan, a former judge involved in a notorious “kids for cash” scandal in Pennsylvania, among the nearly 1,500 people President Joe Biden granted clemency to ...

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009, file photo, Michael Conahan, center, a former Pennsylvania judge involved in a scheme to send youths to a for-profit jail in exchange for kickbacks, leaves the ...

In this Feb. 12, 2009, file photo, Michael Conahan, center, a former Pennsylvania judge involved in a scheme to send youths to a for-profit jail in exchange for kickbacks, leaves the federal ...

Conahan's commutation sparked outrage in Pennsylvania, 14 years after he pleaded guilty along with judge Mark Ciavarella of accepting $2.8 million in payments to send children to for-profit prisons.

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — A judge who helped orchestrate one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history — a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks — was among ...