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'Kids For Cash,' Or Perhaps Not — But A Broken System For Sure

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'Kids For Cash,' Or Perhaps Not — But A Broken System For Sure
by TREY GRAHAM
February 28, 2014 2:11 PM

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And here's the thing: Chiavarella's constituents cheered him on. They admired his sternness, his no-nonsense approach — until news broke that he and fellow Judge Michael Conahan had taken nearly $3 million in "finder's fees" from the operator of a private detention facility where many of those kids were being locked up. 
Scandal exploded. The feds descended. And suddenly the hero of Wilkes-Barre was its biggest villain.

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/28/282120866/kids-for-cash-or-perhaps-not-but-a-broken-system-for-sure




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