Michael Thomas Conahan [1] is an American convicted felon and former judge. He received a J.D. degree from Temple University and went on to serve from 1994 to 2007 as judge on the Court of Common Pleas for Luzerne County. During the last four years of his tenure, he was the president judge of the county. [citation needed]

Dec 13, 2024 · President Joe Biden this week granted clemency to the former Pennsylvania judge, Michael Conahan, as part of a mass commutation covering nearly 1,500 people who had been released on home...

Aug 18, 2022 · In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal...

Dec 13, 2024 · Former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan was convicted in 2011 in what was infamously called the “kids-for-cash” scandal, where he took kickbacks from for-profit detention centers in exchange...

Dec 13, 2024 · Corrupt ex-Pennsylvania judge Michael Conahan convicted of funneling juveniles to for-profit detention facilities for $2.1 million kickbacks had his lengthy prison sentence commuted by Biden.

Dec 12, 2024 · (WBRE/WYOU) — Former Luzerne County judge Michael Conahan, who was sentenced for his role in the infamous Kids-for-Cash scandal in September of 2011, had his sentence commuted Thursday by...

Dec 17, 2024 · Who is Michael Conahan? Conahan was the president judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. He pleaded guilty in 2011 to racketeering conspiracy charges for pulling funding from the county juvenile detention center and accepting kickbacks to send minors to a for-profit facility instead.

Dec 13, 2024 · President Biden commuted the sentence of former Luzerne County judge Michael Conahan, who was convicted in the "kids for cash" scandal. Conahan accepted bribes in exchange for sending children...

Dec 12, 2024 · President Joe Biden commuted disgraced kids-for-cash scandal judge Michael T. Conahan’s lengthy sentence Thursday, allowing him to go entirely free 20 months early. Conahan, 72, a former Luzerne County judge, was among 1,499 people whom Biden granted clemency and another 39 pardoned for non-violent crimes.

Dec 13, 2024 · On Thursday, President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of former Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan, one of two judges convicted for their roles in the shocking bribery scheme known as “Kids...