Coniglio reports to prison today
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterFormer state Sen. Joseph Coniglio (D-Paramus) reports to federal prison today to begin serving out his 2 ½ year sentence, The Record and AP remind us.
The 66-year-old Bergen County Democrat, who served in the state Senate between 2002 and 2008, was convicted for steering state grants to Hackensack University Medical Center, which employed him as a consultant. Coniglio will serve out his term in a satellite camp next to the federal prison in Lewisburg – in central Pennsylvania.
The Record reports that former Paterson School Board President Chauncey Brown III – who ran for Assembly as a Republican in 2007 – is serving a sentence in the same facility for his own corruption conviction.
Since Coniglio’s conviction, two other top Bergen County Democrats have fallen: former Bergen County Democratic Chairman Joseph Ferriero – who was convicted on three corruption counts last month – and the party’s powerful former counsel, Dennis Oury, who was indicted with Ferriero and pleaded guilty just before his trial started.
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No Wonder Bergen's Voters Finally Woke Up Election Day!
It sure took a lot of Democrats to crash & burn, before Bergen's voters wised up & voted for the Republican Freeholder candidates this past election! You didn't hear about any Republican elected officials being arrested or carted off to prison, when the GOP was in control of county government.
Valarie Conigilio
The other partner in VJ Consulting is still Clerk of the Freeloaders,
so much for ethics reform in Bergen
OIff with his rug!
Any chance that you'll post his official prison pic, which would show him without his toupee?