New York – Former New York state Sen. Carl Kruger has received a seven-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in an influence peddling case.
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Kruger shook his head after the sentence was imposed Thursday by federal Judge Jed Rakoff. The chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee from 2008 to 2010 admitted that he accepted nearly a half-million dollars in bribes from a variety of business people.
The 62-year-old Brooklyn resident had faced a minimum of nine years in prison but the judge gave him credit for extraordinary good deeds.
Earlier this year, he resigned from the state Senate seat he has held since 1994.
Kruger, a Democrat, was the powerful Senate Finance Committee chairman from 2008 to 2010, when Democrats controlled the Senate.
A shame that a country would pack away some people for years for petty crimes that every politician commits, while the more powerful get away with it all together (Charlie Rangle).
Let this be a lesson to ALL politicians including the FRUM ONES, if you are in politics to cheat and get rich, then YOU TOO will join the felons in prison!
They still haven’t announced a winner in the special election to replace Kruger.
Nu, so he will get out at age 70, just in time to collect his maximum Social Security benefits.