Deals to dismiss turnpike charges approved
And then there were four. Dauphin County Court Judge Richard A. Lewis on Tuesday approved the deals under which all charges could eventually be dismissed against two of the six defendants in the state Attorney General's Office's pay-to-play case involving the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
And then there were four.
Dauphin County Court Judge Richard A. Lewis on Tuesday approved the deals under which all charges could eventually be dismissed against two of the six defendants in the state Attorney General's Office's pay-to-play case involving the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
At a hearing in Harrisburg, Lewis signed off on so-called accelerated rehabilitative disposition (ARD) for onetime turnpike vendors Jeffrey Suzenski and Dennis Miller. Both men would serve two years of probation and 100 hours of community service. If they completed probation without a new arrest, the charges would be dropped and their records expunged.
Their deals do not involve any cooperation in the ongoing turnpike case, in which three former turnpike officials and a former state senator are scheduled for trial in November.
Miller and Suzenski had been accused of improperly giving turnpike officials lavish gifts in exchange for contracts. Miller is a former vice president of Ciber Inc., a business that landed more than $60 million in contracts with the commission. Suzenski is a onetime consultant for turnpike vendor TransCore. - Angela Couloumbis