Some victims of the “kids-for-cash” scandal have publicly criticized Joe Biden in the wake of Michael Conahan’s commutation. | Susan Walsh/AP. By Adam Cancryn 12/13/2024 06:04 PM EST.

Ex-Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called “Kids-for-Cash” scandal, was among 1,499 commutations Biden granted in the largest presidential act of clemency on a single day.

In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Conahan and Judge Mark Ciavarella shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from a ...

Michael Conahan was among the nearly 1,500 people placed under home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic that Biden announced Thursday would have their sentences commuted.

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Former Judge Michael Conahan, a judge at the helm of the infamous 'Kids for Cash' scandal, was among the nearly 1,500 individuals whose sentences were commuted by President ...

Michael Conahan, the disgraced former Luzerne County judge convicted in the "Kids for Cash" scandal, had his sentence commuted by President Joe Biden, the White House announced on Thursday, Dec. 12.

Former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan arrives at the United States Courthouse in Scranton, Friday September 23, 2011, for sentencing. Conahan was sentenced to a term of 17 and 1/2 years on a ...

In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, former Judge Michael Conahan shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and shared $2.8 million in illegal payments from the builder ...

Former Luzerne County Court Judges Michael Conahan, front left, and Mark Ciavarella, front right, leave the United States District Courthouse in Scranton, Pa., on Sept. 15, 2009.

A judge who helped orchestrate one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S.history — a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks — was among the 1,500 people whose sentences ...

Former judge Michael Conahan pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges in 2011 and was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for the 'Kids-for-Cash' scheme.