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Pennsylvania County Commissioner Barred from DA’s Email After Own Prison Record Is Purged and Jail Key Copied
Loaded on March 1, 2023
by Kevin Bliss
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2023, page 28
Filed under:
Jail Misconduct.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
by Kevin W. Bliss
On January 3, 2023, when Debi Domenick was re-appointed to serve as Vice-Chairwoman for the Board of Commissioners of Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna County, she chided her colleagues to face their duties and not “worry about how it’s going to affect them politically.”
Which is ironic, since Domenick’s ...
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