No more charges out of the second grand jury convened to investigate the near-bankruptcy of Pennsylvania’s capital city. But the 82-page report does make some recommendations for changing state law:
- Extend the statute of limitations of public officials in Pennsylvania. Law enforcement already gets extra time to charge public officials, but ambiguity arose during former Mayor Stephen Reed’s trial over when the clock starts. Read the details here. The bottom line, according to the grand jury: change or clarify the law so it’s the longer of the competing interpretations of current statute.