Thursday, April 2, 2009

BREAKING NEWS- NEW FBI PROBE INVOLVING ARBRITRATION AWARDS


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Times Leader's Terry Morgan-Besecker is breaking news that the FBI took 87 cases involving abritration awards in Luzerne County for a new federal grand jury that will be empaneled April 7th in Scranton.

The subpoena sought all files or records relating to underinsured motorists from Jan. 1, 2002 to the present.

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation took 79 case files dealing with the appointment of neutral arbitrators in uninsured motorist insurance cases from Luzerne County President Judge Chester Muroski's office this afternoon, Muroski said.

Muroski said the agents learned he had been collecting the files as part of the court's own review of the arbitration cases. Two agents visited him today with a subpoena requesting the documents and he complied.


In a related story the Times Leader is reporting:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, already probing corruption at the Luzerne County Courthouse, is now investigating the Wilkes-Barre Area School District and Wilkes-Barre Area Vocational-Technical School.

The FBI on Thursday requested a list of the Wilkes-Barre Area Vocational-Technical Joint Operating Committee board members since 2005, said attorney Jack Dean, who provides legal assistance for the school.

Dean said the information was supplied, and he stressed that the request was not in the form of a subpoena.

A well-placed source said the FBI also requested Wilkes-Barre Area School Board meeting minutes from 2004 to the present and district’s teacher hiring policy.


The summer hasn't arrived but it sure is getting hot in Luzerne County.

1 comment:

just ed said...

Lets hope it gets hotter