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[madmom]

ITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania state senator and one of her sisters will go to trial on charges they used the lawmaker's taxpayer-funded staff for campaign purposes.

An Allegheny County judge on Wednesday ordered Sen. Jane Orie and Janine Orie to stand trial for allegedly conspiring to use the senator's staff for campaign work for the lawmaker and a third sister, state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin. Janine Orie worked as an aide to the judge.

A series of former legislative staffers testified during a three-day preliminary hearing that they conducted campaign work at Sen. Orie's direction.

The Ories have denied the allegations. Melvin has not been charged.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-senator-charged,0,3217546.story

[Sanity Claws]

1. Republican - of course

I had to look up her party affiliation because the article didn't disclose it. Why not?

[T Wolf]

2. Wonder where that asshole Corbet is with HIS investigation. Probably on her donor

list.

[AlinPA]

3. Here is her picture on one of her better days in April.

http://thatschurch.com/2010/04/08/beeeeeeeoooooop/