The Kids for Cash Scandal
I had never heard of this case until probably a year or more ago when I came across a documentary on Netflix. As happens in so many cases that make it to my list of those to research I had either forgotten a lot of the specifics of the case, or there was just so much more to it than I knew. This case was one in which I wondered if I would ever be able to stop researching because it seemed at every corner there was another name connected either with the state of Pennsylvania or the county of Luzerne related to some sort of corruption. Being a lifelong resident of Indiana I know very little about Pennsylvania but my husband spent some of his childhood there. He was unfamiliar with the county but I informed him it sounds as if he, and especially his troubled brother, were lucky they were not from the area. This case is so convoluted that I am not even sure where to begin. Let me first say that unlike most of the cases I blog about here this one does not invo...