CorrectionFormer Penn judge found guilty in kids-for-cash scheme (Reuters)
(Corrects spelling of judge's study in second paragraph)
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A federal commission on Friday institute a former university determine blameable in a so-called kids-for-cash scheme, in which he took money in exchange for sending juvenile offenders to for-profit confinement centers.
Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was accused of attractive $2.8 million in bribes and kickbacks for swing juveniles into confinement centers owned by friends.
The commission in Scranton, Penn. institute him blameable of racketeering, money-laundering conspiracy, humbug and filing simulated income tax returns.
The commission institute him not guilty, however, of heptad counts of extortion and 10 counts of bribery.
In trial testimony, the former judge, who presided over the Luzerne County Juvenile Court, denied that he acknowledged money but did admit hiding money from the Internal Revenue Service.
Ciavarella, 60, was a determine for 14 years.
Prosecutors said he took kickbacks from Robert Mericle, the stuff of the PA Child Care confinement edifice near adventurer Barre, and from Robert Powell, a co-owner of the center.
According to the prosecution, Ciavarella threatened to beam juveniles somewhere else if he did not intend cash from the digit men.
(Reporting by Dave Warner, redaction by Ellen Wulfhorst)
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