Biden Commuted Sentence Of Kids-For-Cash Judge…Convicted Of Jailing Juveniles For $2.1M In Kickbacks

Posted • December 13, 2024: Yesterday, President Biden granted clemency to some 1,500 individuals and pardoned about 40 others. While clemency is different than a pardon -- the conviction still stands and it only reduces the criminal sentence -- there is at least one that's got people very unhappy: Meet some of the beneficiaries of President Biden’s mercy. Unless you live near Wilkes-Barre, Pa., you’ve probably never heard of the “Kids-For-Cash Scandal.” This judge took more than $2 million bribes to send kids to for-profit juvenile prisons with sentences disproportionate to their crimes, and one of the kids killed himself. He's out and free four years early, thanks to Biden.

The corrupt former Pennsylvania judge convicted of funneling juveniles to for-profit detention facilities in exchange for $2.1 million in kickbacks had his lengthy prison sentence commuted Thursday by President Biden. 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 largest presidential act of clemency on a single day in modern history, according to the White House. The mother of a victim of Conahan’s disturbing crime fumed upon hearing of his commutation. 'I am shocked and I am hurt,' Sandy Fonzo, whose son committed suicide after he was locked up as part of the scheme orchestrated by Conahan and former judge Mark Ciavarella, said in a statement. -- That's absolutely horrifying. (…)

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https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/12/13/biden-commutes-sentence-of-kids-for-cash-judge-n2405149
National Review: Meet the Monsters Released by Joe Biden
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/meet-the-monsters-released-by-joe-biden/
New York Post: Biden slammed for commuting sentence of notorious ‘Kids-for-Cash’ judge convicted of imprisoning juveniles for $2.1M kickbacks
https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/us-news/biden-slammed-for-commuting-sentence-of-notorious-kids-for-cash-judge-michael-conahan/