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Gov. Wolf proposes paying anyone wrongly convicted $50K for every year spent in prison Updated Feb 12, 2021; Posted Feb 12, 2021 Larry Trent Roberts leaves Dauphin County Prison in 2019 after a jury finds him not guilty of a 2005 Harrisgurg homicide for which he'd already served 13 years in prison. Facebook Share Tucked into Gov. Tom Wolf’s 2021-22 budget plan is a proposal for Pennsylvania to pay people who were wrongly convicted $50,000 for each year that they were held behind bars. Under Wolf’s plan, the funds would go to exonerees who have had convictions overturned on the grounds...

Longtime marijuana advocate Carl Romanelli thinks Gov. Tom Wolf is smart to push for legalized recreational marijuana for adults in his 2021 budget proposal. “The writing was on the wall with other states falling like dominos. I think he was thinking ‘Why be late to the game?’” Romanelli said. “All these industries should be above board so they could be properly regulated. It’s better for the state to control an industry like this rather than cartels and other forms of organized crime.” Romanelli, 61, a Green Party member from Wilkes-Barre who helped start t...

News by Brendan O’Malley and Hayden Johnson 25th Jan 2021 8:39 AM Premium Content Subscriber only They are among the wealthiest people in Australia, but they live quiet lives out in the suburbs of Brisbane. We take a look at the city's 2020 Rich Listers - who they are, how they made their loot and where they live. There are some surprising suburbs where these multi-millionaires have put down roots. Trevor Lee and Keri Craig-Lee. TREVOR, KERI LEE Ascot power couple Trevor Lee and Keri Craig-Lee have had a great year due ...

There was a booming 14% jump in December quarter retail sales across the board in Australia, so any retailer which still had its hand out for JobKeeper part two after September 30 really has some explaining to do. Following the lead of Toyota Australia in voluntarily returning $18 million of JobKeeper payments, the pressure is on others who participated in the $100 billion-plus program to do likewise. There’s a very simple way for the federal government to maximise Toyota-style JobKeeper returns. It should announce that a comprehensive register of net JobKeeper outlays will be made public...

How to recover billions in JobKeeper overpayments: name every recipient With growing anecdotal evidence of rorting, it's way past time companies were forced to disclose how much public money they've received. JobKeeper recipients Kerry Stokes, Solomon Lew and Alan Joyce (Images: AAP) Public companies rarely hand back government grants they don’t need but that’s precisely what Super Retail Group did yesterday morning when it unveiled a surprise doubling of net profit for the December half and disclosed it was voluntarily going to return $1.7 million of second half JobKeeper payments. Super...