Our front-page teaser headline today perhaps best sums up the long-running saga of Anthony Truscello.

Judge-ment Day.

For a very long time, Anthony Truscello was the law in Folcroft. He served seemingly forever as the town’s district justice, earning the nicknames “Tough Tony” Truscello and “Tony the Just.”

Today the man who left the bench only to become the borough manager is getting a different view of the justice system.

Truscello is behind bars at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility, serving three to 23 months for his conviction in an infamous borough wiretapping case. He’s not alone. Also reporting to the county jail Monday was former borough council Vice President Joseph Zito.

The duo actually were acquitted on charges tied directly to surveillance equipment installed in the borough police headquarters. But they were convicted of preparing false bills in an attempt to hide the purchases.

Truscello’s attempts to stay out of jail went all the way to the state Supreme Court. But the justices ruled against him last month, refusing to hear his case.

He was left with little choice. Truscello reported to prison Monday.

I suppose you can make the argument that it does not do a whole lot of good to put a 72-year-old man in failing health in jail.

Except for this. It reminds us once again that no one is above the law.
Not even Tony Truscello. Not even in Folcroft.