Frank Parlato
HARRISBURG, PA — Pace-O-Matic, a leading national developer of “skill-based” gaming machines, has named suspended attorney Frank Fina, its new Chief Operating Officer.
Pace-O-Matic makes slot machines with minor skill elements—like puzzles or memory games—which allows them to claim legal status as “skill games” despite being slot machines.
Fina, who served as Chief Administrative Officer, will now oversee Pace-O-Matic’s Legal, Compliance, Market Operations, Production, and Customer Service divisions.
Fina was previously Chief of Prosecutions in the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office. He lost his law license for a year, over his handling of grand jury testimony during the Penn State child abuse investigation.
In a 5-1 decision issued in 2020, the state’s highest court agreed with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel that Fina acted improperly in intimidating Cynthia Baldwin, the university’s then-general counsel, into breaching attorney-client privilege. After threatening Baldwin with indictment, Baldwin perjured herself to say whatever Fina wanted.
He then used her coerced statements to bring charges against her three innocent clients, senior Penn State administrators—Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, and Gary Schultz.
The PA State Supreme Court published a 70 page opinion admonishing her for cowardice but she was permitted to keep her law license.
Fina did not fare as well.
Amelia Kittredge, representing the PA Office of Disciplinary Counsel, called Fina “someone who cannot or will not separate right from wrong.”
Justice David N. Wecht in justifying his suspension of Fina described his conduct as falling “far below the ethical standard we rightly demand of a prosecutor.”
In announcing Fina’s promotion, Pace-O-Matic President and CEO Paul Goldean said, “Pace-O-Matic is incredibly lucky to have Frank, one of the top legal experts and business strategists, on our team. Under Frank’s guidance, Pace-O-Matic has seen exponential growth along with unprecedented legal and regulatory wins.”
Goldean seems confident that Fina’s methods won’t lead his company to difficulties that others associated with Fina have experienced in the past.
Judge Barry Feudale, head of the grand juries, was removed from the bench amid revelations he had illegally leaked grand jury materials to help Fina win cases.
Fina also caused two other judges to lose their robes.
Fina enjoyed sharing pornographic material and race-based jokes with judges and attorneys via his official government email accounts.
Some of his emails, sent to judges and lawyers handling cases with him showed women in sexual poses with statues, signs, and other objects.
A nude, obese woman wearing a pig costume. Caption: “How to tell if your house is infected with the swine flu.”
A nude woman, on a couch, with a skeleton between her legs, performing oral sex on her.
A woman giving oral sex. “DEVOTION: Making your boss happy is your only job.”
A warning against using a corn cob for a vibrator.
A topless woman with her legs spread, with her genital area covered by popcorn.
A man tasing a woman in a park, then raping her.
A topless woman on her back, giving oral sex to a man : “WILLINGNESS: Bend over backwards to do an exceptional job.”
A joke about a man taking a woman out to an expensive restaurant. The man asks, “Does your mother feed you like this when you eat at home?” The woman responds, “No, but my mother is not expecting a blow job.”
A marriage counselor asks a couple what they have in common. The husband responds, “Well, for starters, neither one of us sucks dick.”
Humor Fina-Style
While Fina viewed it as hilarity, two Pennsylvania judges and three prosecutors were forced to resign, retire, or were disciplined in connection with “Porngate.”
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery resigned amid a judicial conduct investigation concerning hundreds of emails circulated by Fina and forwarded by the judge on government accounts.
The Chief Counsel to the Judicial Conduct Board, Robert Graci, resigned in 2016 amid scrutiny over his handling of judicial ethics complaints related to Fina’s Porngate.
PA Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin resigned in 2016 after being charged with judicial misconduct after it was revealed that he sent emails that Fina circulated to colleagues.
Porngate emails included:
Motivational Poster: “Dear Abby, I’m an 18 year-old virgin in Arkansas. Are my brothers gay?”
Irish sunglasses show a woman with a black eye.
A definition of women: “The best engine in the world is the vagina. It can be started with one finger. It is self lubricating. It takes any size piston. And it changes its own oil every four weeks. It is only a pity that the management system is so fucking temperamental.”
A woman wearing a T-shirt emblazoned: “WIFE: Washing, Ironing, F**ing, Etc.” The caption: “PLACE: Know it!”
Pictures of small children ogling women’s breasts.
A woman on a nude beach with a baby sitting next to her, grabbing one of her nipples.
“Prayer for dad” with a young girl praying, “Dear God, please send clothes for all the ladies on Daddy’s computer. Amen.”
Nintendo games women “should” play, including games that simulate cooking and performing oral sex on men.
Likes Black Defendants
As a prosecutor, Fina first gained prominence for his “pay-to-play” sting targeting six black Democratic lawmakers led which led to a judge ordering Fina to testify to determine “whether his charging decisions were racially motivated.”
In 2013, Fina, while supervising a grand jury probe into the 2013 Philadelphia building collapse that killed six and injured 13, led the grand jury to indict two black men—Griffin Campbell, the demolition contractor, and Sean Benschop, the excavator operator.
Fina granted the white architect, Plato Marinakos, immunity and chose not to seek to indict the white property owner, Richard Basciano.
Fina denied having racial bias.
Black Is Fina’s Favorite in Orange
Among his Porn gate emails – sent to judges often on the days they would try or sentence black defendants suggested his sense of humor was not limited to womem perofrming sex on demand for men.
He sent “Prom Night at Camden High School” showing black students in unusual prom attire.
Joke: “In a survey, 86% of Inner City residents (most of whom are registered Democrats) said that they have enjoyed sex in the shower. The other 14% said that they have not been to prison yet.”
Joke: “Leroy” asks a preacher to pray for help with his hearing. The preacher prays and asks how his hearing is, and Leroy says, “I don’t know, Reverend, it ain’t till next Wednesday.”
A white man, carrying a bucket of fried chicken, is accosted by two deranged-looking black men.
Joke: Silver robot caddies reflect the sun and blind golfers; one golfer asks the man in the golf shop, “Why didn’t you paint them black?” The man said, “We did. Then four of ’em didn’t show for work, two filed for welfare, one of them robbed the pro shop, and the other thinks he’s the President.”
Joke: “It was said that a black man would be president when ‘pigs fly.’ Indeed, 100 days into Obama’s presidency…swine flu.”
Pace-O-Matic Needs a Man Like Frank Fina
Before joining Pace-O-Matic full-time in 2022, Fina worked as a legal and strategy consultant with The Noonan Group. Company officials credit him with helping navigate legal complexities surrounding the skill gaming industry, which operates in a murky and contested regulatory landscape across the U.S.
Now, as Pace-O-Matic’s Chief Operating Officer, Fina assumes one of the top roles in a growing company that often finds itself at the center of state-level legal and political debates in an evolving legal and regulatory environment over gaming.
“Frank’s combination of legal acumen and operational insight has helped us lead the industry and protect access to legal skill gaming across the country,” Goldean said.
Pace-O-Matic machines are slot machines—flashing lights, spinning reels, loud sounds. The difference is that players can perform a minor task (such as remembering a symbol or tapping the screen to stop a moving cursor) to “win” or claim a noncash prize.
Skill slot machines are profitable with low-income wage workers who stop at gas stations and convenience stores, elderly individuals with fixed incomes with time to spare, veterans, college students with discretionary money from their parents, drunks (placement in bars) and problem gamblers who think skill games will “win back” their losses at casinos. Payouts are much lower than slot machines at casinos. Machines often “win” in the form of free credits or very small amounts.
Fina said, “It’s a privilege to be named in this new role and trusted with overseeing several of the company’s departments, all of which are led by top experts in their fields.” He also emphasized Pace-O-Matic’s commitment to regulatory compliance and supporting small businesses.
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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Dear Editor at large,
Newsworthy event!!!!!
Allison Mack ties the knot….
…. And it’s not a noose!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14802979/smallville-allison-mack-married-released-prison-NXIVM.html
She married a man named Frank!!!
Is it Frank Parlato?!?
Frank is a sexy bachelor. It maybe.
Frank hope everything’s well man!
Take it easy!
I just noticed these “Skill Games” at a Sunoco here in Media, and was astonished (and disgusted) to find slot machines in a local gas station. A bit of research led me here. No surprise to find well-connected lowlifes behind Pace-O-Matic’s “success.” What next, peep shows in the back corner of Wawa? FFS.
Porngate officials further found that in a high percentage of cases, kids attracted to the program had “rail in their blood,” as a result of parents, grandparents, cousins or others they knew who had worked in the industry, Fina said.
Frank” I got a whore house I want you run while I interview some girls. Chick En ranch Oh Matic
So you need me run it by hand till I can get some girls? Right got it.
Fina is an animal. Whoever engaged in these vile email “jokes” on business hours should be removed from the bench. Vile.
Pure filth and the judges are all in on it. All of them should have been disbarred.
https://www.pacourts.us/Storage/media/pdfs/manual_uploads/file-4673.pdf?cb=26425a
Obviously, Frank Fina was Pace-O-Matic’s chief administration officer long before the formal announcement was made on May 1, 2025.
https://amp.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article272207738.html
As ‘gray slots’ battle heats up, a divided GOP and a potential opening for Democrats
By Austin Horn
UPDATED FEBRUARY 7, 2023 1:07 PM
They made their pitch most recently at a November meeting of the Interim Joint Committee on Licensing and Occupations. Frank Fina, Pace-O-Matic’s chief administrative officer, argued that the machines were much better for local communities than casino alternatives.
Seems like Frank Fina is a member of the Noonan Group.
It’s just shady how some of these lawyers can bounce back and forth between governmental and private roles.
I wonder if Frank Fina getting suspended was a part of the plan.
Frank, not related, but any NXIVM news? It’s been too quiet recently. Any updates on KR, NS, LS, NC, SE, AM? Looking on this site for new articles. Any news you can share?
Yes some news comingh. Keith is hakering to get out of prison and my bet is he hopes to ride the wave of my success in exposing a certain FBI agent.
Did Clare ever pay up on the money she owes you? If not, when would now be a good time?
The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday it seized hundreds of illegal gambling machines allegedly supplied to storefront casinos and other businesses by a pair of companies owned by a Pittsburgh man with prior convictions for illegal gambling.
The owner, John F. Conley, is also named in a 2024 grand jury presentment charging a former executive of skill game maker Pace-O-Matic with taking kickbacks for ignoring complaints to the company about illegal gambling machines.
The attorney general’s office said its agents and state troopers seized more than 400 illegal gambling devices from dozens of western Pennsylvania establishments in a series of raids in March.
J.J. Amusements and Buffalo Skill Games are each charged with a felony count of being a corrupt organization, according to court documents. No lawyers for the companies are named in the court filings.
It only shows that honesty and integrity gets you nowhere in life.
You don’t rise to the top of the gaming industry being a suspended attorney without doing anyone personal favors.
Now, Frank Fina can put entire Penn State Sham in the past whether he was right or wrong.
Frank Fina’s new position probably comes with huge bonuses.
If Frank Fina is in Georgia, Pennsylvania wouldn’t have jurisdiction.
And I doubt Gary Schultz’s attorney Thomas Farrell would be motivated to do anything either.
The only attorney who faced any real consequences regarding the Penn State Sham was Kathleen Kane.
And despite the wrongdoings of Cynthia Baldwin, she really didn’t face any real consequences.
Frank Fina not facing any real consequences probably makes a lot of people in Pennsylvania sick.
Frank Fina’s law license being suspended didn’t derail him at all.
It’s like …. people probably thought that the Frank Fina disciplinary board complaint actually meant something or had some sort of meaning when an attorney willfully violates the Rules of Professional Conduct.
But in reality, the Fina Complaint is just a bunch of meaningless words on paper that would cause somebody look back upon and falsely believe that some sort of justice was done.
The Frank Fina disciplinary complaint is more like false justice being served because it opened the door for opportunities instead of actual consequences.
And it’s sad …. really really sad.
If you didn’t know about the Frank Fina suspension, you probably live under a rock.
Think about all the people who had to know that Frank Fina was suspended… and all the people who didn’t give a shit about the fact that he was suspended either.
Frank Fina might of got his law license suspended… but that doesn’t mean that your insider connections disappear.
It’s all about who you know and who you blow in the corrupted Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
It’s interesting how Paul J. Killion counted 73 violations that occurred….. but is it really about the violations that occurred… because how could it be about the violations that occurred when there was really no consequences to those violations….. it seems like it’s not about the violations that occurred but rather more about creating a super long story to have maximum billing private attorney time… or doing a personal favor for a friend Thomas Farrell by milking the clock out to the maximum.
It’s difficult , because it’s not about the 73 violations that occurred to the Penn State Administration ….it’s only about billing the Penn State Administrator client for private attorney time.
It’s sad…. you think people would care about the person that the 73 breaches or violations were committed upon…. but attorneys in this state are like …. so what … who cares … it’s not about the violations that happen to you personally… it’s only about me billing you for private attorney time.
Police Say
Centre County Man Charged With Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material
The IP address linked to the report was registered to Samuel J. Jones, 75, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
Fina said, “”You asked me about the Second Mile, and look, Dennis, I guess what I will say to you is there’s just certain things I can’t talk about, that is one of them. What I can tell you is it relates to what we’re doing now on Second Mile is that the Second Mile has about 3/4 of a million dollars worth of assets as they shut down as a charity, and we are working with the court to dispose of those assets in the proper way.”