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"Former judge's trial in insurance fraud begins"

"Former judge's trial in insurance fraud begins": Today in The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Jason Cato has an article that begins, "A former state appeals court judge duped insurance companies out of nearly a half-million dollars because he was broke and needed to settle a debt with a former fiancee, prosecutors told a federal jury Wednesday. A lawyer for Michael T. Joyce, who resigned from the Superior Court last year after being indicted on multiple counts of mail fraud and money laundering, countered with claims that the U.S. Attorney's Office built its case on the words of 'a vicious, jilted woman,' Erie architect Shelane Buehler."

Today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Paula Reed Ward reports that "Ex-judge's lawyer says trial a 'witch hunt.'"

And The Erie (Pa.) Times-News contains an article headlined "Fraud or vendetta?"

Full post as published by How Appealing on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).