Update: 12.1.12

AP reports former state Senator Robert Mellow was sentenced to 16 months in prison and ordered to pay $120K in fines and restitution.

Archive Video April 2012.

Senator Mellow's portrait hangs in the Capitol Hall along with three other convicted or admitted felons---former Speakers of the PA House, H. William DeWeese, John Prezel, and Herbert Fineman.

Former Senator Robert Mellow is scheduled to plead guilty on Friday, April 27, 2012 in the William J. Nealon Federal Courthouse in Scranton, PA.

Today the PA Ethics Commission issued this final adjudication order: "The Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission has issued a final adjudication in the following matter under The Ethics Law.

HARRISBURG, PA -Order No. 1598 (MELLOW) Pennsylvania State Senator, 22nd Senatorial District, Lackawanna, Luzerne & Monroe County, Pennsylvania.

ORDER SUMMARY: As a Pennsylvania State Senator, Robert Mellow's actions in 2007 in authorizing the continuation of a Senate lease regarding the location of his senatorial district office from Brad, Inc., a business with which he was associated in 2007, when his divorce was finalized, resulted in a transgression of Section 1103(a) of the Pubic Official and Employee Ethics Act, 65 Pa.C.S. ? 1103(a). Per the Consent Agreement of the parties, Mellow is directed to make payment in the amount of $21,000.00 payable to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and forwarded to the State Ethics Commission by no later than the thirtieth (30th) day after the mailing date of the Commission?s Order. Mellow is further directed to not accept any reimbursement, compensation or other payment from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania representing a full or partial reimbursement of the amount paid in settlement of this matter."

Senator Mellow's portrait hangs in the Capitol Hall along with three other convicted or admitted felons---former Speakers of the PA House, H. William DeWeese, John Prezel, and Herbert Fineman.