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In 1988 Judge Joe OKicki was regarded by his peers as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the United States He was newly remarried 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 OKickis personal affairs The judge would be accused of soliciting bribes frequenting brothels and running the county as if he were a battleship commander Later hed 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 OKickis unfinished tellall memoir Jailing the Johnstown Judge is a fresh examination of the extraordinary western Pennsylvania case that attained international infamy