Post by Logan on Jun 18, 2016 22:13:55 GMT -6
Ex-Gov. Rowland Loses Latest Appeal: Moves Closer To 2½-Year Prison Sentence
Life after government took another disastrous turn Friday for ex-Gov. John G. Rowland when a federal appeals court roundly rejected his efforts to overturn his most recent corruption convictions and moved him closer to a 2 1/2-year prison sentence.
A three judge panel of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City upheld Rowland's convictions on seven crimes that arose from what the court called his efforts to conceal his role as a paid consultant to Connecticut congressional campaigns in 2010 and 2012.
Rowland was convicted by a federal jury in 2014 of seven crimes arising from his efforts to negotiate or create phony business contracts that would hide his role as a paid consultant to campaigns by Mark Greenberg and Lisa Wilson-Foley from federal campaign regulators and the public.
The reason for the attempted concealment, according to trial testimony, was a desire to enable the candidates to deny that they were buying advice from Rowland, who had been forced from office, convicted and imprisoned following an earlier bribery scandal in 2004.
Read more: www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-gov-rowland-loses-appeal-20160617-story.html
Life after government took another disastrous turn Friday for ex-Gov. John G. Rowland when a federal appeals court roundly rejected his efforts to overturn his most recent corruption convictions and moved him closer to a 2 1/2-year prison sentence.
A three judge panel of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City upheld Rowland's convictions on seven crimes that arose from what the court called his efforts to conceal his role as a paid consultant to Connecticut congressional campaigns in 2010 and 2012.
Rowland was convicted by a federal jury in 2014 of seven crimes arising from his efforts to negotiate or create phony business contracts that would hide his role as a paid consultant to campaigns by Mark Greenberg and Lisa Wilson-Foley from federal campaign regulators and the public.
The reason for the attempted concealment, according to trial testimony, was a desire to enable the candidates to deny that they were buying advice from Rowland, who had been forced from office, convicted and imprisoned following an earlier bribery scandal in 2004.
Read more: www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-gov-rowland-loses-appeal-20160617-story.html