An Allegheny County Common Pleas Court jury Thursday convicted suspended State Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin on all but one count of using her former Superior Court staff, and the legislative staff of her sister, former state Sen. Jane Orie, to run campaigns for the Supreme court in 2003 and 2009, the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette reported.
The jury was hung on one count of official oppression against the suspended justice.
Melvin will likely be stripped of her seat on Pennsylvania's highest court, and lose her pension, according to Politicspa.
Melvin's sister, Janine Orie, was found guilty on all counts, according to the PG. She worked as an administrative assistant to the justice.
Former Sen. Jane Orie is serving 2 1/2 to 10 years in prison for five felony convictions involving theft of service and conflict of interest for using her staff to perform political fundraising and campaign work.
If Melvin is removed from the bench, she will be the second justice ever to be removed from the bench on the grounds of criminality.
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Our President is said to to be for the middle class. Protecting us from global warming, the rich, joblessness, Wall Street. And how does he show it? Flies in his 747 to Palm Beach for a long weekend burning more fossil fuels than the average poor person burns in their lifetime. ( This, 6 weeks, after his Hawaian vacation that would be most middle class families dream vacation of a lifetime!) He holds $50,000 a plate dinners to be bought off by the rich on Wall Street. Fifteen percent unemployment while continuing to over regulate ever aspect of our lives. Pushing "Gun Safety" laws that do little or nothing to stop another mass murder from happening or the gangs from killing each other and their neighbors in the inner cities. WAKE UP! Turn off the game, your favorite sitcom or drama, and pay attention and make yourself aware what they are doing to us!
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The U6 unemployment rate counts not only people without work seeking full-time employment (the more familiar U-3 rate), but also counts "marginally attached workers and those working part-time for economic reasons." Note that some of these part-time workers counted as employed by U-3 could be working as little as an hour a week. And the "marginally attached workers" include those who have gotten discouraged and stopped looking, but still want to work. The age considered for this calculation is 16 years and over.