Victims of ‘kids-for-cash’ judge outraged by Biden clemency: ‘What about all of us?’
www.theguardian.com
Michael Conahan was convicted of accepting $2.8m for jailing more than 2,300 children, some as young as eight
  • solrize@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    That guy was a Pennsylvania state judge and must have broken a zillion Pennsylvania laws with that scheme. Why was he only taken in on Federal charges? Biden can’t pardon state charges, apparently. So if he had been locked up under state law, he’d still be locked up.