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

by Arcadia Publishing

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467152037
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	10/10/2022
Series:	True Crime
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	396,216
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Bruce Siwy has a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Pittsburgh and is employed as the managing editor of the Daily American newspaper in Somerset. His résumé includes Associated Press Managing Editors and Pennsylvania NewsMedia Assocation Professional Keystone Media awards in the spot news, sports column writing, sports, business, investigative reporting, column, enterprise reporting and podcast categories. He lives in Western Pennsylvania with his wife and kids. You can follow him on Twitter at @BruceSiwy.

Editorial Reviews

"It is one more exposé of 'how things had been done in Cambria County' for a very long time. ... (Siwy) names the king makers and 'leg breakers' who dominated the landscape. This book reads a lot like the white pages of a 1980's telephone directory of high-profile citizens whose powerful and sometimes terrifying names were often whispered behind closed doors." — Nick Jacobs, former CEO of the Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau

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