Drug Czar Pick Was Accused of 'Judge-Shopping' to Get Cocaine Expungement for Friend [View all]
Almost 20 years ago, elected district attorney Tom Marino hand-delivered a request to clear the criminal record of northern Pennsylvania car dealer Jay Kilheeney, a man Marino called a friend who was convicted six years earlier of delivering 2 grams of cocaine.
Lycoming County Common Pleas Judge Dudley Anderson, in his first year on the bench, granted the expungement. But he changed his mind upon learning he was asked less than three weeks after a more senior judge, Kenneth Brown, denied the request.
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Marino, now a Republican congressman, is reportedly President Donald Trump’s choice to be the nation’s “drug czar” as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
The appointment would require Senate confirmation, and opponents of Marino see the case as potential fodder to help derail the nomination.
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