Judge Overturns Defamation Verdict

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By: Michael R. Sisak | The Citizens' Voice

For nearly a decade, The Citizens' Voice battled charges it had defamed a Luzerne County businessman with a series of vaguely sourced articles tying him to a federal investigation into money laundering and the mafia.

The Wilkes-Barre newspaper and its owner, Times-Shamrock Communications, spent more than $1 million defending the stories and questioning whether they had actually caused the businessman, Thomas Joseph Sr., his son and their companies, harm.































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