February 10, 2009 - 11:49pm
Inside Edge

Schoor avoids prison

Schoor DePalma founder Howard Schoor won't have to serve jail time after pleading guilty to bribing two Ocean Township officials.

Worth noting was U.S. District Court Judge Dennis Cavanaugh's decision to spare the onetime head of a politically active engineering firm jail time.  Howard Schoor, a founder of Schoor DePalma, faced up to fourteen months in prison after admitting that he paid a $15,000 bribe to former Ocean Township Mayor Terrance Weldon and Sewerage Authority Chairman Stephen Kessler. Instead, Schoor will spend the next two years on probation. 

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