The former administrator of the workers' compensation fund in Lackawanna County, Pa., refused to testify last week against a boyhood friend and former county commissioner facing federal trial on 41 charges of bribery and corruption.The Scranton Times-Tribune said Charles A. "Chuckie" Costanzo's refusal to take the stand as a government witness against former County Commissioner Robert C. Cordaro appeared to be a setback for prosecutors trying to demonstrate the flow of thousands of dollars of bribes from county contractors to Robert C. Cordaro and his co-defendant, current Commissioner...
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