Biden slammed for commuting sentence of notorious 'Kids-for-Cash' judge convicted of imprisoning juveniles for $2.1M kickbacks | 12 Dec 2024 | The corrupt former Pennsylvania judge convicted of funneling juveniles to for-profit detention facilities in exchange for $2.1 million in kickbacks had his lengthy prison sentence commuted Thursday by President [sic] Biden. Former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called "Kids-for-Cash" scandal, was among 1,499 commutations the 82-year-old lame-duck president granted in the largest presidential act of clemency on a single day in modern history, according to the White House. The mother of a victim of Conahan's disturbing crime fumed upon hearing of his commutation. "I am shocked and I am hurt,” Sandy Fonzo, whose son committed suicide after he was locked up as part of the scheme orchestrated by Conahan and former judge Mark Ciavarella, said in a statement.