Mark Ciavarella "Kids for Cash" Judge a convicted Felon

A long time in coming too, alas the wheels of Justice in this corrupt latter day Roman Republic we call the Untied States Of America move slowly if at all, lumbering,squeaking and rattling like an oil deprived engine ready to seize. On Friday a small measure of Justice belched forth from the corrupt kleptocracy that is Eastern Pennsylvania.

Mark Ciavarella the former President Judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania who conspired, along with fellow dishonorable judge Michael Conahan, in the infamous "Kids for Cash" scandal in 2008 was found guilty of racketeering. Ciavarella was found guilty of 11 other counts including the conviction under the RICO Act and tax evasion.

The charges stemmed from Ciavarella accepting illegal payments from Robert Mericle, the real estate developer of Pennsylvania Child Care, and attorney Robert Powell, a co-owner of the facility. Ciavarella was also on trial for 38 other counts including accepting numerous payments from Mericle and Powell as well as tax evasion.

After the guilty verdicts he walked out of the courtroom a free man under the custody of his daughter, pending sentencing to a term of as little as 13 years or 157 give or take a few!

Once outside the disgraced judge was loudly confronted by a mother Sandy Fonzo, whose son, Edward Kenzakoski, killed himself last year after this criminal judge's decision to put him away for a minor drug offense sent the boy's life spiraling out of control.

"My kid's not here anymore. He's dead! Because of him!" Fonzo shouted at the judge and his lawyer as they talked to reporters on the courthouse steps.

"He ruined my fucking life! I'd like him to go to hell and rot there forever!" she shouted.

As guards attempted to restrain her, Fonzo reached out and touched the ex-judge on the arm, shouting, "Do you remember me?"

"Do you remember my son? An all-star wrestler? He's gone, he shot himself in the heart, you scumbag!"

The disgraced judge turned and walked away with Fonzo's screams of anguish filling his ears. We can only hope this is something the Judge replays in his mind the rest of his haunted days!

Fonzo's son was 17 and expecting to receive a college wrestling scholarship when he was busted for possession of drug paraphernalia and landed in the ex-judge's court.

Ciavarella, who was known as "Mr. Zero Tolerence," sentenced him to fours months in book camp and 30 days at the youth jail for the offense, which was his first.

As a result of the bust, the boy didn't get the scholarship he expected and fell into a life of crime and depression, his mom said.

He developed anger issues and was convicted of aggravated assault as an adult, Wilkes-Barre's Times Leader reported.

He shot himself last June, at the age of 23.


Edward Kenzakoski was just one of thousands of young juveniles in Eastern Pennsylvania whose constitutional rights were trampled into the dust by the two criminal ex-judges! The worst judicial scandal since World War Two will result in millions of dollars in damages and has destroyed the faith in the rule of law and order of millions of Pennsylvanians.

Sandy Fonzo one mother, one woman whose only son was robbed from her is just one voice rising in condemnation at the personal destruction that is wrought when men of the Judiciary descend into common criminal depravity aided and abetted by a corrupt political establishment.

Another Chapter closes..

Mark Ciavarella was represented in his criminal case by long time Luzerne County Lawyer Al Flora who is most notorious for representing Gay Pornographer Bryan Kocis (Cobra Video) who was murdered on Jan 24th 2007 by two rival gay pornographers.

Bryan Kocis had been embroiled in a high profile scandal involving underage child pornography which resulted in his pleading guilty to such a charge in 2001, then in 2004 hiring another underage teenager to appear in his bareback gay videos.

The Corrigan/Kocis-Cobra public scandal played out against a backdrop of insinuations and suspicion that Mr.Kocis had bought his freedom from the corrupt Judge Michael Conahan in 2001 despite pleading guilty to sex and filming pornography with a 15 year old. A charge that should have entailed prison and registration as a life time sex offender!

Bryan Kocis readily used his 2001 exoneration of guilt and lack of legal consequences to bludgeon and terrify other young men into line, telling them he had Luzerne County's corrupt judiciary in his pocket.

I will also reiterate in February 2007 the only explicit death threat I received came from Luzerne County after I posted an early article accusing Judge Michael Conahan of official corruption and bribery in the 2001 case.

As for Mr.Flora representing Judge Conahan? Well certainly seems to validate that pompous assertion of "Judges in my pocket" by Bryan Kocis! Now that one Judge is a public Felon of record and another soon to face his day of Judgment, DeWayne can enjoy this delicious irony filled souffle!

And kudos to Mr.Flora using that law degree to make his mother proud defending the truly despicable cretins of society! Child Pornographers and Mafia Judges!

The full story of the Kids For Cash scandal and the longtime Judicial Corruption in Luzerne County one of the most crooked county's in the US is covered in detail with Links below.

'Rot in hell!' Heartbroken mom whose son committed suicide confronts crooked judge

Kids for cash scandal

"Despite Red Flags, Judges Ran Kickback Scheme for Years" (NY Times)

Cash for kids' judge took $1m kickback from private jail builder to lock children up (UK MAIL Online)

"I will never, ever forgive him, he took everything I had, he has no remorse, there is no justice!" Sandy Fonzo,