Bias

In a Jan. 10 article titled "Grand Jury impact: more sunshine, but.." the New Era wrote: "Confronted with grand jury evidence against them, Commissioners Dick Shellenberger, Pete Shaub and Molly Henderson pleaded guilty to violating the Sunshine Act by meeting secretly prior to selling Conestoga View."

WATCHDOG: It was precisely because the commissioners were NOT confronted with grand jury evidence but rather led to believe that a serious felony indictment for cause unknown might be forthcoming that, after almost a year of judicial mugging by then district attorney Donald Totaro, they agreed to a plea bargain to an unsubstantiated accusation of a violation of the Sunshine Act.