CONVICTED
April 2009 - Following a long tradition in New Jersey and in Alabama, New Jersey Sen. Joseph Coniglio 66, (D) was convicted on federal corruption charges for a no-show job.
A jury convicted Coniglio, 66, (D) in April on the extortion count and five of eight mail fraud counts for funneling more than $1 million in state grants to HUMC after it agreed to sign him on as a "hospital relations" consultant in May 2004. During the 22 months he was on the hospital’s payroll, prosecutors said, he received a stream of corrupt payments in return for using his influence and position on a powerful Senate budget committee to steer state grants to the hospital.SENTENCED
September 1, 2009 - He was sentenced to 30 months in prison and pay a $15,000 fine.
Coniglio, a union plumber who served in the Legislature from 2002 to 2007, was the sixth former member of the state legislature to be convicted of corruption charges since 2006.
Prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh to send the state senator to prison for between roughly 5 and 6 1/2 years. The judge opted for a significantly shorter sentence, citing Coniglio's history of public service. [Ed - Which is, if you think about it, a little like sentencing a rapist to probation because of all the women he didn't rape.]
Good source of information on the case. News / Ex-Senator Joseph Coniglio Guilty in Consulting Contract Scheme with Hackensack University Medical Center
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