The http://www.billybytes.com/blog/ and other Billy Bytes publications have been vindicated by the article, “Northampton County paid $12,000 in computer suit,” by reporter Paul Muschick, in today’s edition of The Morning Call.

Jeffrey Britland and Karen Brandau aren’t the only victims of what appears to be incorrigibly corrupt Northampton County Government.

It has also victimized 81-year-old Plainfield resident Anna Mae Kessler whom it abducted from the comfort and security of her own home at 574 Bangor Road, Easton, and imprisoned in the remotely isolated Williams Manor assisted-living facility located at 164 Baron Road, Bushkill Township.

Another victim is Henry Rodriguez, a Latino, whom Northampton County tried to frame in an automobile fatality involving Henry, denied medical treatment while in the county’s prison, denied independent drug testing, transferred to Lehigh County Prison for “his own protection, and denied a jury trial by Philadelphia federal Judge Bruce Kaufman.

Yet another victim, Ed “Bernie S” Cummings, like Britland and Brandau involved in a federal-government-related lawsuit, was arrested without probable cause by Havertown, Pennsylvania, police, taken to Northampton County Prison, and tried in the county’s court of common pleas by Judge Jack Panella.

Like Rodriques, Cummings was transferred to Lehigh County Prison “for his own protection.”

There Cummings, a regular contributor to WBAI-FM Radion of New York City, was assaulted by a fellow prisoner, who broke Cummings’ arm and jaw and place in a ward for inmates with contagious diseases to recover.

So severe were the fractures to Cummings’ jaw that it had to be wired shut, and he could take nourishment only in the form of liquids sucked through a straw.

Northampton County bought private residential properties in Easton’s African-American and Latino Dutchtown-Gallows Hill neighborhood for the Government Center expansion.

The county made these real estate transactions in violation of its own Home Rule Charter and paid for the illegally acquired properties with money from the prisoners’ emergency medical fund.

The county covered up heinous prison abuse documented in the now-infamous Arthur Tredinnick Report.

Female prisoner Maria Merced was hogtied in the Northampton County Prison, denied access to sanitary napkins when menstruating.

Her tormentors, instead of being punished, were allowed to continue employment until eligible for retirement.

A prison supervisor took subordinante employees to his Palmer Township residence where they submitted to his rectal examinations.

Off-the-job training for strip-searching prisoners for drugs?