Coniglio sentenced to two and a half years in prison
By Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter
Convicted in April of fraud and extortion in connection with his job at Hackensack University Medical Center, former state Sen. Joe Coniglio (D-Paramus) today received two and a half years in federal prison, according to the Star-Ledger.
While receiving payments from the hospital as a consultant totaling over $100,000, Coniglio as a senator helped secure at least $1 million in state grants for the hospital, a federal court determined.
Federal prosecutors had recommended a sentence of 63 to 78 months, although U.S. District Court Judge Dennis Cavanaugh can impose any sentence within or outside of sentencing guidelines.
“Justice has been served and we are satisfied with the sentence,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph Marra. “The ex-senator from Paramus now joins a coterie of once powerful political figures whose greed, arrogance and betrayals landed them in federal prison. He has only himself and his calculated criminal conduct to blame for that.”
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