So . . . the judge who sold kids into prison got 28 years. What about the guy who owned the prison?

[Stinky The Clown]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iIKCzKwMXczjs3mLAivSzWnsJicQ?docId=bf828c105ae542df82e6fba002024e08

Judge Ciavarella got 28 years for sentencing kids as young as 10 to serve time in a privately owned prison. Good. Since he's 61, it is likely he will die in prison. I wish that to happen. I wish him misery and pain and personal anguish that is ceaseless.

Now what about the guy who paid this judge to do this? That would be one Robert Mericle. Run that name through the google machine and you come up blank with respect to any legal sanction against this guy.

The judge was a lowlife who showed his price.

The briber, the guy with the actual money, what about him?

[phantom power]

1. recommend

[villager]

2. "Prison" is not for the ownership class, mere citizen!

For starters, they own the courts...

[CBGLuthier]

3. He is a job creator. Privileged Class.

[Rex]

4. He gets off Richard Lynn Scott free!

It is the true American way. Fuck over one or a few people (rob a store) and rot in jail. Fuck over hundreds of people (rob a bank) and die in prison. Fuck over millions of people (ponzi scheme) and GET ELECTED GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA! See how that works? America...land by and for the rich opportunist/criminal!

[RetroLounge]

5. Really, which google did you use?

http://www.timesleader.com/news/Federal-prosecutors-seek-stiffer-sentence-for-Robert-Mericle.html

SCRANTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed a modification to the plea agreement with Robert Mericle that will likely increase the sentence he faces for his guilty plea related to the Luzerne County corruption probe.

The amendment, filed Thursday, alters a section of the plea agreement that stated the U.S. Attorney’s office would recommend Mericle be sentenced to the minimum under federal sentencing guidelines. In its place, the government inserted language that says it is now free to recommend a higher sentence, up to the maximum.

The government has also included language that would allow it to seek a higher sentence for Mericle based on “obstructing or impeding the administration of justice.” The document does not state what action Mericle has allegedly taken to obstruct justice.

RL

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Thanks. I googled different terms, like "sentenced" and "trial". From your story, he's still free.

And they raise his max sentence to still months instead of years.

I think he should get double whatever the knucklehead judge gets.

[RetroLounge]

8. Oh, I agree. This guy should be gone forever.

But he copped a plea...

RL

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Amazing, innit?

How can the SAME crimes be treated so unfairly between the fundamental criminal and the putz who was his hitman?

(Not arguing with you, just ranting at the moon. :hi: )

[RetroLounge]

15. It's disgusting.

This guy should be in his own prisons.

RL

[Rex]

9. And that pretty much proves your point in a nutshell.

Lackey gets years, master get months (maybe).

[Stinky The Clown]

11. I guess the judge had a shitty lawyer

For that I am glad.

But man oh man, does this stink to high heaven or what?

[Firebrand Gary]

6. Surely he will also get 28 years right.

Just because he's some big corporate investor does not mean that he is going to get off free? Right?

Bwawawawa, Of course he is going to get off and probably keep all that money he stole from the people. Falsely charging tax payers for extended prison stays is against the law. But all corporations are above the law yet have the same voting rights as people.

[malaise]

12. Excellent post

Private prisons are the new slave camps

[Scuba]

13. Bingo

[mochajava666]

14. +1