Joseph M. McDade

Indictment and acquittal In 1992, McDade was indicted on bribery charges. He was charged with racketeering and conspiracy after allegedly accepting gifts and trips in exchange for allegedly diverting government contracts to specific groups. He was acquitted after a jury trial in 1996. Nevertheless, the indictment resulted in him being passed over for the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee in 1995, even though he was the committee's most senior member. The chairmanship instead went to Bob Livingston of Louisiana, who was first elected to the House in 1977. The bill, known as the McDade Amendment, was passed as a rider to the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Appropriations Act, 1999 in October 1998, over the objection of Senator Orrin Hatch. The law was codified as section 530B of Title 28 of the United States Code.

Indecent Exposure Charges On January 18, 2007, several years after leaving Congress, McDade was accused by at least three women of "masturbating on the beach and by the pool area of the hotel" at a Florida beach resort in Sanibel, Florida. McDade was charged with first degree misdemeanor of indecent exposure.

Death McDade died on September 24, 2017, in Fairfax, Virginia, five days before his 86th birthday.

Places named for McDade McDade Park – The Lackawanna Valley was scarred by coal mine surface "strippings", and one such surface mine was the Old Continental in the Keyser Valley. Congressman McDade secured funding and support to reclaim the Old Continental strip mine and convert it to a recreational park. The park has served as an environmental laboratory to learn more about how such reclamation work could be done. In 1978, McDade Park was dedicated and became the flagship of the Lackawanna County's park system. McDade Airport Terminal – In 2006 the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport Terminal building was named in honor of Congressman McDade. Congressman McDade's father played a key role in helping the Airport open. specifically, in 1941, John B. McDade, the congressman's father and president of the Heidelberg Coal Co., donated (0.49 km2) on which part of the Airport now sits. John B. McDade donated this land to "help the national defense in time of war." Thanks to land donated by John McDade, and purchased from others, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Airport opened June 1, 1947. In the 1990s the Airport infrastructure needed updating. Congressman McDade secured federal budgets and grants to accomplish this task. University of Scranton McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts – The University of Scranton honored Congressman McDade by naming its Center for Literary and Performing Arts after him and by creating the McDade Center for Technology Transfer. McDade Recreational Trail, a 37-mile-long trail on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. McDade Trade and Transit Centre in downtown Williamsport, PA.