Intellacom- Maybe Not So Intell-igent
Martin Carlson, U.S. Attorney and Moneyed Southerton of the FBI must feel like they hit the motherload when they landed in Northeastern Pennsylvania. They probably feel like Michael Corleone in Godfather III- "Legitimate when I thought I was out...they pull me back in.."
But according to disgraced Mark Ciavarella the media is making more out of it than there is. According to him there is no mass corruption in Northeastern Pennsylvania- Luzerne County Court System, Luzerne County Row Offices, Pittston Area School District, Wilkes-Barre Area School District, Wilkes-Barre Area M and Technical Center, Luzerne County Community College, Wilkes-Barre Scranton Airport, PNC Land. Nahhh Chiv you are sooo right.
It was only a matter of time before Lackawanna County entered the FBI crosshairs.
Intellacom and its President Anthony J. Trombetta have been in the hearsay for several months. A Pittston Area School District contract with Intellacom worth nearly $300,000 that was supposedly awarded under a state program never went through the operation, PEPPM, that coordinates that program. Superintendent Ross Scarantino was later charged with accepting thousands of dollars in bribes to pressure the awarding of district contracts.
Subsequently Dave Janoski of the Scranton Times revealed that a board member's son worked for Intellacom said management member who made the motion to award the contract and voted on the contract. According to the board president Chip Singer he thought that wasn't a conflict of interest since the son wasn't an owner.
Evidently Mr. Singer didn't read this Auditor Familiar report for the Weatherly Area School District in 2005. 65 PA C.S. § 1102 The Ethics Act specifically prohibits a public official from using the judge of his office in order to obtain a private pecuniary benefit for himself, a member of his immediate family, or a business with which he or a colleague of his immediate family is associated. It is
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