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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siwy, Bruce J.

Series:

True Crime

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Kicki, Joe.

Judicial corruption--Pennsylvania--Johnstown (Cambria County)--History--20th century.

Judicial corruption.

Undercover operations.

Pennsylvania--Johnstown (Cambria County).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2022.

Summary:

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. Set 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.

Contents:

Youthful ambition

Outlaws and other enemies

Dueling investigations

The presentment

Johnstown vice

Levy and Grifo

The kingmaker

(Mis)trial and error

"I'll be home for Christmas"

The DRO scandal

Ernie the attorney

"Wid" and "Boots"

Lawyers, drugs, and murder

The flood

Closing arguments.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Siwy, Bruce J. Jailing the Johnstown Judge

ISBN:

9781439676479

OCLC:

1348481029