The law firm of one of the key figures in the Luzerne County "kids-for-cash" scandal, attorney and businessman Robert J. Powell, must pay back multiple business loans plus interest and attorney fees — totaling in the millions — as a result of the loans going into default, the state Superior Court has ruled.
A three-judge panel ruled unanimously in First National Community Bank v. Powell Law Group that Powell's firm had to pay the principal, accrued interest, and attorney fees related to three separate business loans made to two companies, denying the firm's motions to strike the judgments despite its contentions that excessive attorney fees and insufficient signature and initialing sections on documents entitled it to relief.
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