18 U.S.C. Section 241 provides as follows:
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

18 U.S.C. Section 242 provides as follows:
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

Don has made a career of filing lawsuits that lack factual and legal support and then crying corruption when those cases get dismissed. He has an egocentric personality disorder and a persecution complex. And, Andy, your pathological devotion to him is just sad.

The court stopped the grand jury investigation for three months beginning in September 2007, and exercised its rarely used ”Kings Bench” authority after DeNaples was charged with perjury in January 2008, halting the case until February 2009. Charges against DeNaples were dropped in March 2009 after he agreed to give up control of Mount Airy to his daughter, Lisa.

Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico said the Supreme Court’s interference played a major role in his decision to drop the charges in return for DeNaples giving up control of Mount Airy.

Among other disruptions, Marsico said, the intervention prevented a preliminary hearing that would have featured testimony from reputed Bufalino family crime boss William D’Elia and others.

”I would have preferred to continue the prosecution but we had been to the Supreme Court twice and had not fared well,” Marsico said. ”We had a Supreme Court exercising extraordinary authority. I found it quite unusual that the court would step into this case but it led me to believe that even if we were to secure a conviction we would have problems sustaining that conviction on appeal. I was reading the tea leaves.”

Bruce Ledewitz, a law professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and an expert on the state Supreme Court, said the court’s actions in the DeNaples case were ”incomprehensible.”

”It wasn’t consistent with any kind of case law,” Ledewitz said.

The Supreme Court made other gambling-related decisions following the formation of PCA in May 2007.

The court dismissed the appeals of applicants who lost bids for casino licenses. Pocono Manor Investors lost out to Mount Airy for a casino in the Poconos. The court dismissed the Pocono Manor appeal in July 2007.

In April 2009, the court declared unconstitutional a state ban on campaign contributions from casino interests. That same month the PCA paid $100,000 for the legal expenses of Peter DePaul, a Philadelphia-area developer who filed the successful lawsuit challenging the ban on campaign donations.

The PCA’s payment went to the Pittsburgh law firm Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, which represented DePaul in the case. Former Chief Justice Cappy joined Buchanan Ingersoll after retiring in January 2008.

Don, it is past time to bring in the feds. Do you recommend any agents in particular known for their integrity and tenacity we should approach? We have had organized crime running our courts far too long with nothing being done (on the surface.) The appearance of impropriety is so far beyond the pale the conspiracy of passivity among the legal community alone clamors for an investigation. Is the FBI under their control, as well, one must ask?

Thankfully, Bruce Ledewitz spoke up and he despises Castille, which is a good sign. Maybe he has some advice.

gee, can anyone guess what happened to orie?

we are so thoroughly awash in the cesspool of corruption, we have forgotten why our kids sacrifice their lives overseas