When an anonymous complaint lodged against former Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan arrived at the Judicial Conduct Board’s office in September 2006, staff members immediately suspected a fellow judge facing potential disciplinary charges was behind it, the board’s deputy counsel told a commission investigating judicial corruption Tuesday.
When that complaint was filed Sept. 28, 2006, the board was “at a crossroads” with Luzerne County Judge Ann H. Lokuta, said the board’s deputy chief counsel, Francis J. Puskas, in testimony before the Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice.
