Mafia Judges

Disgraced Judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella were Mafia Judges, associates of and serving mobster William “Big Billy” D’Elia head of the New York Bufalino crime family!

This is the explosive and dare I say not unexpected charge in today's Scranton Times.

A witness will testify before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that Ciavareela and Conahan conspired with disgraced Court Commissioner Ray Sharkey to "legally rub out" The Scranton Times, no doubt due to that newspapers reporting on "mob influence"!

Judge Conahan and Ciavarella have already been exposed selling children to private jails with Mob ties.

So my question when will the Child trafficking charges be leveled?

What about Child Prostitution and Underage video?

Why was Bryan Kocis not only tolerated but protected in Luzerne County?
Exactly who made the payments to Judge Conahan in 2002 allowing Bryan Kocis to have rape,child pornagraphy and child molestation charges reduced to a simple plea of "Corruption of a Minor" with no prison time,no sex offender status.

Despite VIDEO PROOF of the Rape and Sexual Abuse of the then 15 year old boy!

In January 2002 Bryan Kocis while he was under legal threat, facing YEARS in Prison signed an EXCLUSIVE distribution deal with suspected Mafioso Motti Green owner of Pacific Sun. His company controlled retail distribution of Cobra Video DVD's until Bryan Kocis death in January 2007. Green was also a neighbor of Kocis in the Back Mountain area.

The Russian and NYC "Italian" mafia have been fighting for control of sexual trafficking of minors and Pornography. Indeed many of the Gay Bars,Nightclubs and Video stores in NYC are mob owned or controlled. Bryan Kocis and Robert Wagner were frequently seen at Detention Thursdays at the old classic Stonewall Bar. Mob owned and controlled. Detention was the place underage males could be noticed and "picked up".

Young Men that is what Bryan Kocis needed and found at Detention Thursdays. He could also supply his Cobra Boy models to reward "his friends" on trips to New York City.

Dallas Township, Luzerne County Pennsylvania where Bryan Kocis operated a Child Pornography for 6 years! Guaranteed legal immunity by crooked Mob Judges!

I made this charge in 2006.

Vindication is sweet and more to come, stay tuned doubters.

You haven seen anything yet!

Suit says witness will tie mobster D'Elia to courthouse corruption

A witness will testify that one or both of the disgraced judges, Michael Conahan, top left, and Mark Ciavarella, top right, have 'direct connections' to jailed mobster William D’Elia, bottom left, according to a petition to be filed today in the state Supreme Court.

By Dave Janoski
STAFF WRITER

Published: Thursday, February 19, 2009
Updated: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:49 PM EST

A witness will testify that one or both of the disgraced Luzerne County judges who’ve pleaded guilty to accepting millions in kickbacks have “direct connections” to jailed mobster William “Big Billy” D’Elia, according to a petition to be filed today in the state Supreme Court by lawyers for the owners of The Citizens’ Voice.

The petition asks the court to vacate a $3.5 million defamation verdict issued by suspended Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. in June 2006 against The Scranton Times L.P., a related company called The Times Partners and former Citizens’ Voice reporter Edward Lewis .

Following a non-jury trial, Ciavarella ruled in favor of West Pittston businessman Thomas A. Joseph, who claimed he was defamed in a series of newspaper stories in 2001 following federal raids at Joseph’s business and homes owned by Joseph, D’Elia and others.

In its petition, Scranton Times L.P. alleges that then-President Judge Michael T. Conahan and his first cousin, Court Administrator William T. Sharkey Sr. “steered” the case into Ciavarella’s courtroom, ignoring the usual practice in which cases were assigned on a rotating basis. Ciavarella issued one-sided rulings and ignored evidence that Joseph and D’Elia were close associates who were suspected of money laundering, the petition says.

D’Elia was arrested on money laundering charges in May 2006, a month before the trial. Joseph was never charged.

In his opinion, Ciavarella wrote “there was no credible evidence presented at trial linking the two men beyond being social acquaintances.”

In the past week, Conahan and Ciavarella have pleaded guilty to accepting $2.6 million in kickbacks from a juvenile detention owner and contractor and Sharkey has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $70,000 from the county.

“The unusual handling of judicial assignments in Joseph v. Scranton Times, the scope and subject of newspaper articles in question, and a cascade of recent revelations regarding corruption in the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas strongly suggest the $3.5 million non-jury verdict was rigged …” the petition says.

“Petitioners have identified a potential witness who, on reliable information and to Petitioners’ belief, would testify concerning direct connections between D’Elia and Judge Conahan and/or Judge Ciavarella.”

The petition asks the court to allow Scranton Times L.P. to gather evidence that it believes will reveal additional evidence of ties between D’Elia and one or both of the judges.

Kevin C. Abbott, an attorney for Scranton Times L.P., declined comment on the petition or the identity of the unnamed witness.

“We’re going to let it speak for itself,” he said.

Joseph and his attorneys did not immediately return phone messages. Conahan, Ciavarella and Sharkey could not be reached for comment.

Ciavarella’ attorney, Albert Flora Jr., said he hadn’t seen the petition and could not comment. Conahan’s attorney, Philip Gelso, and Sharkey’s attorney, Bruce Miller, did not immediately return phone messages.

D’Elia’s attorney, James Swetz, did not immediately return a phone message.

D’Elia, 62, the longtime reputed head of the Bufalino crime family is serving nine years in federal prison for money laundering and witness tampering.

Scranton Times L.P.’s petition argues that Ciavarella ignored evidence in federal search warrant affidavits presented during the trial that stated D’Elia and Joseph were “involved in and/or have knowledge of various federal criminal violations.”

The affidavits quoted confidential sources who alleged Joseph and D’Elia were involved in money laundering.

The petition also argues that Sharkey and Conahan worked together to ensure the pre-trial hearings and the actual trial would be assigned to Ciavarella even though Ciavarella and Conahan had assured Scranton Times L.P. that the selection of a trial judge would be made at random by the Court Administrator’s Office.

The petition cited a record recently obtained from the Court Administrator’s Office that notes the case was assigned by WTS, which are Sharkey’s initials, at the direction of MTC, which are Conahan’s.

Conahan refused a request from Scranton Times L.P. to have a judge from another county hear the case.

Scranton Times L.P. unsuccessfully appealed the Ciavarella’s verdict in state Superior Court, which upheld the verdict in September.

The petition to be filed today cites numerous aspects of the corruption investigation that led to charges against Conahan, Ciavarella and Sharkey including:

• A statement from attorneys for Robert J. Powell, a Butler Township attorney whose company allegedly paid some of the kickbacks to the two judges, that claimed Conahan and Ciavarella had extorted payments from him because he was “particularly vulnerable to the pressures that these Judges could bring to bear on him and his clients.”
• A review of the system for appointing neutral arbitrators in certain insurance cases in Luzerne County Court ordered by President Judge Chester B. Muroski in reaction to media reports of rumors of case-fixing and the possible manipulation of that process by Conahan and Ciavarella.
• A column in the legal journal The Legal Intelligencer citing rumors that “the investigation of the judges was the result of William D’Elia talking.”

D’Elia has been in federal custody since October 2006. In July 2007, he appeared before a Dauphin County grand jury that later recommended perjury charges against Dunmore landfill magnate Louis A. DeNaples. DeNaples is accused of hiding his ties to D’Elia and other crime figures when seeking a state casino license.

Joseph appeared before the same grand jury in August 2007.

Federal prosecutors say D’Elia aided the Dauphin County case against DeNaples and he could win a reduced sentence for continued cooperation. The perjury case against DeNaples has been stalled by his appeals in state Supreme Court.

Conahan and DeNaples served together on the board of First National Community Bank in Dunmore, where DeNaples was chairman until federal bank regulators suspended him in reaction to the perjury charges in January 2008.

Conahan resigned from the board last month after the charges against him were announced.

In the past two weeks the bank has filed legal action to collect $4.15 million from defaulted loans guaranteed by Conahan, Ciavarella, bank board member Michael G. Cestone, Powell and his law partner, Luzerne County Prothonotary Jill A. Moran.

The loans were taken by W-Cat Inc., the company behind a failed townhouse development in Wright Township.