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Former Connecticut Governor John Rowland Sentenced To 30 Months In Campaign Fraud
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Mar 18, 2015 02:26pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Author | Edmund Mahony |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 18, 2015 08:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | John G. Rowland, Connecticut's brash ex-governor turned radio commentator, stood again Wednesday in front of a packed courtroom and for the second time in ten years, was sentenced to prison for low rent political crimes, this time for 30 months.
U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton said Rowland showed a striking disregard for the clean election laws while trying to conceal his role as a paid consultant to a 2012 Congressional campaign of Lisa Wilson-Foley.
"What is striking and disturbing is Mr. Rowland's total contempt for those laws which was made abundantly clear at the trial, including his shameless use of his radio talk show to advantage one candidate, Ms. Wilson-Foley and to disadvantage her lead opponent," Arterton said.
Rowland turned down an opportunity to speak. He is planning to appeal and insists that he is innocent.
But his defense lawyer Reid Weingarten complained at length that Rowland was over charged and selectively prosecuted by federal authorities who are convinced he escaped too easily from his first conviction for corruption in 2004, when he served about ten months in prison. |
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