June 10, 2019
A former Pennsylvania magistrate judge was sentenced to 78 months in prison Monday for agreeing to help launder $400,000 that undercover agents presented as proceeds from health care fraud and drug trafficking, following a lengthy hearing in which the disgraced jurist said he should have just walked away from corruption opportunities.
January 18, 2019
A former Pennsylvania magistrate judge pled guilty in federal court Friday to charges that he agreed to help launder some $400,000 in funds that undercover agents presented to him as proceeds from drug trafficking and insurance fraud.
September 06, 2018
An attorney and former director of public safety for a Pennsylvania township pled guilty Wednesday to a money laundering and extortion scheme, admitting that he and his co-conspirators engaged in a plot to launder money made from health care fraud and illegal drug trafficking, and leaving a magisterial judge as the last alleged conspirator to not plead guilty.
April 06, 2018
A Pennsylvania federal court on Friday agreed to delay a trial over a judge and an attorney's alleged scheme to launder money made from health care fraud and illegal drug trafficking, granting the parties' request for more time to review "voluminous" discovery data.
March 09, 2018
An ex-Philadelphia Federal Credit Union manager pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that he helped a Bucks County magistrate judge and a local attorney launder money that undercover agents portrayed as proceeds from health care fraud and drug trafficking activity.
December 05, 2017
Prosecutors lodged additional corruption charges Tuesday against a Pennsylvania judge and an attorney who have already been accused of laundering, trafficking drugs and health care fraud proceeds, as well as participating in a bribery scheme to fix a traffic ticket.
September 05, 2017
An indicted Pennsylvania judge facing federal bribery and money laundering charges is pushing for more time to build his defense as the clock ticks down toward the scheduled start of his trial next month.
August 02, 2017
Prosecutors have accused a Pennsylvania judge, an attorney and a deputy constable charged with laundering drug-trafficking and health care fraud proceeds of also participating in a bribery scheme to fix a traffic ticket, and then trying to get a federal witness to change their testimony about that scheme.
December 19, 2016
A Pennsylvania district judge was suspended without pay Friday after being accused of participating in a money laundering scheme in a federal indictment unsealed earlier in the day.
December 16, 2016
A Pennsylvania district judge and a suburban Philadelphia lawyer were charged alongside one other Bucks County official in an indictment unsealed Friday that alleged a scheme to launder money that came from health care fraud and illegal drug trafficking.