tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post8096819452744981069..comments2023-10-25T12:02:18.172-04:00Comments on CasablancaPA: "CRIMINALS" IN THEIR MIDST?Ugartehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03569197600238141135noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-2477035777765450632010-05-06T10:29:46.180-04:002010-05-06T10:29:46.180-04:00The Judas of the Legislature that goes on KDKA Rad...The Judas of the Legislature that goes on KDKA Radio Marty Griffin to preach how his former colleagues are corrupt and Frankie had a Saint Paul Revelation, now is arrested again, and endanger of losing his Pension.....FRANK LAGROTTA.<br /><br />Good to see Frankie cannot blame this on Veon, DeWeese, Eachus, Perzel and Corbett, and sad to see it happen to anyone even to Frankie.<br /><br />LaGrotta arrested on drug charge<br />By: J.D. Prose<br />Beaver County Times<br /><br />Wednesday May 5, 2010 10:03 PM<br />BEAVER — Former state Rep. Frank LaGrotta, who’s still on probation for pleading guilty to conflict-of-interest charges in 2008, was arrested Wednesday by Beaver police for trying to get an altered prescription filled at a borough drugstore. <br /><br />LaGrotta, 51, of 777 Adams Ave., Ellwood City, went to the Rite-Aid pharmacy on Third Street around 12:30 p.m. and submitted a prescription for 180 Xanax pills, Beaver police Detective Jim Degori said. <br /><br />Degori said it was “very obvious” that the prescription was altered, and pharmacy employees immediately called police. Xanax is used to treat anxiety disorders, anxiety associated with mild depression and panic attacks. <br /><br />LaGrotta had a valid prescription, but the amount of pills had been changed, Degori said. Degori did not know Wednesday how many pills LaGrotta’s prescription was originally for. <br /><br />Degori said LaGrotta was cooperative as he was taken into custody and then driven to the Beaver Police Department. LaGrotta will be charged by summons, possibly as early as today, Beaver Police Chief Dan Madgar said. <br /><br />After speaking with state probation officials, borough police released LaGrotta around 2 p.m., and an officer drove him back to his car, which was still parked at Rite-Aid. <br /><br />“I didn’t do a damn thing,” LaGrotta told a Times reporter while sitting in the driver’s seat of his white Hyundai. <br /><br />LaGrotta said the prescription had been in his car since April 14. If the prescription was altered, LaGrotta said, someone else must have done it because the prescription was untouched for nearly a month. <br /><br />Also, LaGrotta said that he went to the Beaver pharmacy because he was in town for a doctor’s appointment. <br /><br />Advertisement LaGrotta served 20 years in the state Legislature before losing to state Rep. Jaret Gibbons, D-10, Franklin Township, in the 2006 Democratic primary. <br /><br />In November 2007, LaGrotta was charged in Harrisburg with two felony counts of conflict of interest by Attorney General Tom Corbett’s office. Prosecutors said LaGrotta put his sister and niece on the state payroll, but they did not do any work. <br /><br />LaGrotta pleaded guilty in February 2008 to the two felonies and was sentenced to six months of house arrest, 30 months of probation and 500 hours of community service. He was also ordered to pay $27,000 in restitution for the money paid to his relatives and fined $10,000. <br /><br />But LaGrotta got to keep his $36,000 annual pension. He has repeatedly insisted that he pleaded guilty only to protect his sister and niece, who each pleaded no contest to false swearing before a grand jury. <br /><br />By August 2008, LaGrotta was off house arrest and serving his community service by doing manual labor for Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Ellwood City. <br /><br />LaGrotta was last in the news in November 2009 when word leaked that he had written a book about his prosecution. He also started a blog last year on which he comments about local, state and national politics. <br /><br />Interviewed about his book in November, LaGrotta told The Times that he sought counseling after his ordeal and was put on medication after being diagnosed with depression. <br /><br />“I struggled for many, many, many months with what occurred,” he said, “because I knew that what they were saying happened, didn’t happen.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-26287551536040390382010-05-04T10:09:17.349-04:002010-05-04T10:09:17.349-04:00Why, do you have evidence that DeWeese was involve...Why, do you have evidence that DeWeese was involved in Beaver Initiative for Growth, too?Signor Ferrarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02772759878412493174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-13567655163517007462010-05-04T08:14:38.497-04:002010-05-04T08:14:38.497-04:00The Beaver Initiative for Growth trail is coming u...The Beaver Initiative for Growth trail is coming up. You planning to blame DeWeese for that one, too?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-65013303348709284592010-05-03T07:40:50.963-04:002010-05-03T07:40:50.963-04:00"While Andrews is merely implicated and Rodav..."While Andrews is merely implicated and Rodavich indicted, the caucus continues to employ staff who actually admitted guilt in open court."<br /><br />Who has the power to fire these people? <br /><br />Rodavich got the ax.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-3487793724041262162010-05-02T15:05:01.151-04:002010-05-02T15:05:01.151-04:00So tell wise one what will be the policy towards t...So tell wise one what will be the policy towards those that plead guilty to crimes however were given immunity?<br /><br />What should be done?<br /><br />Should they all be fired?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15361779127120940105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-4514629132051533912010-04-30T17:12:08.588-04:002010-04-30T17:12:08.588-04:00"Only the staff that was indicted were fired....<i>"Only the staff that was indicted were fired..."</i><br /><br />No one had been indicted when DeWeese fired the original seven staffers. The firings were in November 2007. The indictments were in July 2008. Most of the grand jury testimony was gathered <i>after</i> the original seven firings.<br /><br />How could DeWeese have known then who would be arrested and who would be given immunity?Signor Ferrarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02772759878412493174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-1346120962840912902010-04-30T15:25:01.034-04:002010-04-30T15:25:01.034-04:00Anonymous said...
Now that you mention it, it is a...Anonymous said...<br />Now that you mention it, it is an amazing coincidence that almost all the people DeWeese fired ended up getting arrested, while others were given the opportunity to testify in exchange for immunity. Why, it's almost as though DeWeese himself decided who would be arrested and who would be spared.<br /><br />Only the staff that was indicted were fired...not saying right or wrong, just saying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-87933215675409185662010-04-30T11:58:14.804-04:002010-04-30T11:58:14.804-04:00Eventually, the deal that was struck will be expos...Eventually, the deal that was struck will be exposed. DeWeese came close to admitting it when he was arrested - and if he loses his reelection, he definitely will expose Corbett because he'll have nothing to lose at that point. Corbett will never admit it - that's part of the deal - but it's being talked about and will come out sooner or later.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-38708592802670036632010-04-30T11:49:35.535-04:002010-04-30T11:49:35.535-04:00If you are familiar with the case, you know that n...If you are familiar with the case, you know that nothing else explains why some staff were charged and others were not, particularly with regard to the LCOMM effort. From what we can glean from the evidence that's been made public, those who were most deeply involved in LCOMM were not charged.Signor Ferrarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02772759878412493174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-42473537416774819582010-04-30T11:37:32.682-04:002010-04-30T11:37:32.682-04:00Now that you mention it, it is an amazing coincide...Now that you mention it, it is an <i>amazing</i> coincidence that almost all the people DeWeese fired ended up getting arrested, while others were given the opportunity to testify in exchange for immunity. Why, it's almost as though DeWeese <i>himself</i> decided who would be arrested and who would be spared.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-84007013295828206352010-04-30T09:52:26.094-04:002010-04-30T09:52:26.094-04:00Maybe these staff people who committed crimes by t...Maybe these staff people who committed crimes by their own testimony (Steve Webb, Karen Steiner Blaner, Rich Pronesti, Tom Andrews, Bob Caton, David Bliss) should go, and to be consistent certainly Sharon Radovich, but rather than dwell on the staffers - how about an explanation from their employers: Rep. Eachus, Rep. McCall, Rep. Dermody, Rep. DeWeese, Rep. Mann?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-4765486826636606182010-04-29T23:14:25.523-04:002010-04-29T23:14:25.523-04:00it is time to return to decency and vote for Rohre...it is time to return to decency and vote for Rohrer and Metcalfe. Two true public servants who will restore decency and morality to politics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-77911179091589490952010-04-29T03:42:27.071-04:002010-04-29T03:42:27.071-04:00Anonymous said...Those staffers won't be fired...Anonymous said...Those staffers won't be fired. Those same staffers know to much and could have easily testified about Eachus and the other leaders/members... If they get fired, they will all start talking about EVERYONE, and Eachus (and the rest) knows it. Maybe a Keefer lawsuit will get them talking... he will have to call them to testify... if the house D's were smart, they would just pay him and hope he goes away, otherwise, they will ALL be dragged through the mud again - by their own doing! Something i'm sure NONE of them want in an election year. April 28, 2010 5:15 PM<br /><br /><br />You have point, and Corbett will use them to make sure his policies pass as Governor until the Feds remove him.<br /><br />Bascially, Corbett is blackmailing every legislator on Bonusgate Investigations, and remember he will appoint the next AG if he is Governor!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-37036823272464805612010-04-29T03:40:04.045-04:002010-04-29T03:40:04.045-04:00Anonymous said...What do you think if you get a li...Anonymous said...What do you think if you get a little distance from this, like say you don't work at the capitol and are just a middle of the road taxpayer? Is it unreasonable that Bonusgate, in nearly all of its incarnations with all of its broken politics, is much more successful in its deterrence of future abuses of power than it is in punishing past wrong doing? April 28, 2010 1:36 PM<br /><br />If it was about Deterrence why was Republican Senator Joan Orie and the Republican Candidate Judges still breaking the very laws Corbett says was illegal and why did Corbett let them get away with it in 2008, 2009, and why in 2010 is Corbett doing the same things????<br /><br />Why has Corbett not investigated any republican senators and actually hired the staffers with the biggest bonuses paid by the Republicans?????<br /><br />Corbett knows his own investigation is coming after him now, because he was doing it, and now he claims he will be a victim of powerful people after him?<br /><br />Detterence is, was, and will be poppycock for Corbett!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-85544207579347306812010-04-28T17:15:16.881-04:002010-04-28T17:15:16.881-04:00Those staffers won't be fired. Those same sta...Those staffers won't be fired. Those same staffers know to much and could have easily testified about Eachus and the other leaders/members... If they get fired, they will all start talking about EVERYONE, and Eachus (and the rest) knows it.<br />Maybe a Keefer lawsuit will get them talking... he will have to call them to testify... if the house D's were smart, they would just pay him and hope he goes away, otherwise, they will ALL be dragged through the mud again - by their own doing! Something i'm sure NONE of them want in an election year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-9363960114360605072010-04-28T17:11:19.235-04:002010-04-28T17:11:19.235-04:00It hasn't done a thing to deter anyone... trus...It hasn't done a thing to deter anyone... trust me. Everyone there either thinks that A) if they are a Dem, that Corbett is done with them and won't be touched and B)If there are a Republican, they KNOW Corbett won't touch them. Especially in the Senate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-46631370260894942632010-04-28T13:36:26.435-04:002010-04-28T13:36:26.435-04:00What do you think if you get a little distance fro...What do you think if you get a little distance from this, like say you don't work at the capitol and are just a middle of the road taxpayer? Is it unreasonable that Bonusgate, in nearly all of its incarnations with all of its broken politics, is much more successful in its deterrence of future abuses of power than it is in punishing past wrong doing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-26101225801084941532010-04-28T13:29:50.090-04:002010-04-28T13:29:50.090-04:00You are right the Stetler motions will follow Corb...You are right the Stetler motions will follow Corbett into the Governorship and plague his entire administration.<br /><br />This is why he is now saying Powerful People are after him and once an investigation begins it will reveal far more than the Stetler Motions Factual Evidence.<br /><br /><br />Corebtt can put forth a Campiagn Face, but in reality he knows what will be revealed, and he should be frighten by his poor choices.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-85462698354364295452010-04-28T13:14:45.985-04:002010-04-28T13:14:45.985-04:00The legislature and senate will have to move tyo a...The legislature and senate will have to move tyo a Non-Partisan Staffing of 4 Caucuses as DeWeese has proposed on the Virginia Legsilature Model.<br /><br />Staffers that testified they broke the law under Imuunity are not protected by Workplace Admissions they broke work rules.<br /><br />They are At-Will employees and can be dismissed anytime.<br /><br />This what will happen after all the trials are over.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454535989576644455.post-22420285055556384982010-04-28T13:03:18.093-04:002010-04-28T13:03:18.093-04:00Corbett knows after seeing the Stetler Motion that...Corbett knows after seeing the Stetler Motion that his own Staff and himself will be held accountable and they have the same criminals within his own midst, within the OAG.<br /><br />It will come out as further prosecutions move on and Corbett knows he has caught himself now, once a Special Prosecutor is appointted, the OAG Staffers will not continue to to lie for Corbett.<br /><br />Corbett's problems are just starting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com