Jailing the Johnstown Judge: Joe O'Kicki, the Mob and Corrupt Justice

Jailing the Johnstown Judge: Joe O'Kicki, the Mob and Corrupt Justice
ISBN-10
143967647X
ISBN-13
9781439676479
Category
History
Pages
144
Language
English
Published
2022-10-10
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Author
Bruce J. Siwy

Description

In 1988, Judge Joe O'Kicki was regarded by his peers as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the United States. He was newly re-married, sworn in as the president judge of a Pennsylvania county and on the fast track to a federal bench.... Silently, however, a state police vice unit was in the midst of covert operation into O'Kicki's personal affairs. The judge would be accused of soliciting bribes, frequenting brothels and running the county as if he were a "battleship commander." Later he'd concoct a plan to flee the country and exact revenge on his enemies. strongSet in the aftermath of the 1977 Johnstown flood and including courtroom testimony, the memos of whistleblowers, contemporary interviews and excerpts from O'Kicki's unfinished tell-all memoir, "Jailing the Johnstown Judge" is a fresh examination of the extraordinary Western Pennsylvania case that attained international infamy.

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