Linda Bebko-Jones

Bebko-Jones to keep pension

August 6th, 2008, posted by RobHop

The forgery case that abruptly ended former state Rep. Linda Bebko-Jones’ political career will not prevent her from collecting her state pension of nearly $31,000 a year.

The 62-year-old Democrat pleaded guilty Tuesday in Harrisburg to forging signatures on her nominating petitions in the 2006 primary, and she was sentenced to a year of probation and 200 hours of community service.

The charges to which Bebko-Jones pleaded guilty are violations of the state Election Code. Election-law violations are not on the list of more than 20 crimes that, in the case of a conviction, require Pennsylvania state employees to forfeit their pensions.  read more »

Ex-lawmaker & aide plead in election fraud case

August 5th, 2008, posted by RobHop

A former state lawmaker and her aide avoided jail time by pleading guilty Tuesday to forging signatures on nominating petitions for the 2006 primary.

Linda Bebko-Jones, 62, and a former legislative aide, Mary Fiolek, 60, were each sentenced in Dauphin County to 12 months’ probation and fined $500. They pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of forging and submitting false signatures and criminal conspiracy. Ten other charges were dismissed.

The two admitted creating numerous bogus signatures on at least three different nomination petitions that were attested to as authentic and filed with elections officials. Prosecutors said names were drawn from the Erie phone book and Bebko-Jones’ personal address book.  read more »

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