Over a decade after a conviction that saw two juvenile court judges guilty in one of the largest racketeering and courtroom fraud scandals in U.S. history, the judges involved are now ordered to pay over $200 million to their victims.
Two Pennsylvania judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, are at the center of the "kids for cash" scandal, which saw them sentencing juveniles to for-profit prisons, in exchange for payments from the prisons.