Will not repay. Senator LaValle voted for the 2005 pay raise and accepted “unvouchered expenses.” Senator Gerald LaValle's constituents have called him a thief, a crook and "everything else under the sun" in the wake of his vote supporting the pay rise (Beaver County Times, November 4, 2005.) Fourteen of the 25 state senators who took the expense money -- including Jay Costa Jr., D-Forest Hills, and Gerald LaValle, D-Rochester -- have not yet returned it (Post-Gazette, Friday, December 2, 2005.)