”Only when you realize how powerfully that theory skews how you perceive the evidence can you throw it off and search instead for the thing that you are trying to avoid, a fraud.” Last week the SEC filed an emergency enforcement action to halt what it claims was an ongoing Ponzi scheme that promised investors […]

Litigation Release No. 22117 / October 6, 2011 Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release No. 3326 / October 6, 2011 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Eric Aronson, Vincent Buonauro, Jr., Robert Kondratick, Fredric Aaron, Esq., PermaPave Industries, LLC, PermaPave USA Corp., PermaPave Distributions, Inc., Permeable Solutions, Inc., Verigreen, LLC, and Interlink-US-Network, Ltd., Defendants, and Caroline Aronson, […]

Ex-Redevelopment Authority member served two months for corruption-related plea. A former Wilkes-Barre chief of detectives and Luzerne County Redevelopment Authority member who pleaded guilty to a corruption-related charge completed his two-month federal prison sentence Friday. William Maguire, 62, of Mountain Top, was released from the Community Corrections facility in Philadelphia, according to the U.S. Bureau […]

A Russian Orthodox provincial priest was revealed to have amassed a collection of luxury cars and to keep hundreds of thousands of pounds of cash in his safe. An undercover investigation on Russian TV into Archpriest Mikhail Grigoriev of Kazan has raised wider questions about the propriety of the country’s clerics and their relationship with […]

Local engineer Michael Pasonick may be called to testify at the corruption trial of an unidentified area official that is set to begin in February, according to a court motion filed Wednesday by his attorney. Attorney Joseph Sklarosky Sr. filed a motion seeking to postpone Pasonick’s sentencing for his guilty plea to bribing a local […]

SCRANTON – Local engineer Michael Pasonick may be called to testify at the corruption trial of another area official that is set to begin in February, according to a court motion filed by his attorney today. Attorney Joseph Sklarosky Sr. filed a motion seeking to postpone Pasonick’s sentencing for his guilty plea to bribing a […]

The bribery sentencing of prominent Wilkes-Barre engineer Michael J. Pasonick Jr., scheduled for next week, will likely be postponed because of defense objections to a report that will be used to help determine his sentence. The objections arose Tuesday during a meeting between defense and prosecution attorneys in the chambers of U.S. District Judge Richard […]

Athens. Two Orthodox priests in the central Greek city of Larissa have been arrested for usury and blackmail targeting a fellow clergyman, local police said on Wednesday, quoted by AFP. The two men, aged 35 and 49, were arrested on Tuesday following a complaint from a 51-year-old fellow priest who had borrowed 10,000 euros ($14,300) […]

Prominent Wilkes-Barre engineer Michael Pasonick is scheduled to plead guilty next week to bribing a school board member in Luzerne County in an effort to secure work for his firm, according to an order signed today by a federal magistrate. Pasonick, 69, is to appear before U.S. Magistrate Malachy Mannion in Wilkes-Barre Tuesday at 2 […]

• South Canaan, PA The St. Tikhon’s Investigative Committee (STIC) met with Metropolitan Herman and Mr. Martin Paluch, among others, at their meeting in South Canaan last week. Archbishop Job joined the Committee for the interview with Metropolitan Herman. Archdeacon Alexi Klimitchev, the former manager of the St. Tikhon’s bookstore, did not appear before the […]