Posted on 03/18/2016 12:27:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A lawyer for former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland asked a federal appeals court Friday to overturn his clients corruption conviction, arguing the government too broadly applied a federal law.
But a government lawyer told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City that the conviction should stand, claiming prosecutors rightly charged the Republican with falsifying documents to hide political work he did in two congressional campaigns.
Rowland was sentenced to 2½ years in prison last year for allegedly conspiring to disguise work he did on a failed 2012 congressional campaign and a 2010 campaign. This is the second political conviction case for Rowland, who in 2004 resigned amid a corruption scandal, eventually serving 10 months in prison for taking illegal gifts.
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John Rowland is an embarrassment. One of MANY that Konnecticut has produced, both Democrats and Republicans. Crooked as the day is long.
Longer. And he's a dumb-ass.
who cares what dif does it make..
As a former Connecticut voter, I attest that John Rowland was the first (R) politician & governor to disillusion me. He’s the original poster boy for political fraud for me.
Introducing the state income tax, as he had promised NOT to do, was the first in a long series of years where I just kept hoping life in CT would get better.
It didn’t - and I left, as have many, many others.
Weicker introduced the tax
Lowell Wieker implemented the income tax. That was the year I left.
I knew John Rowland when he was a Waterbury Councilman. He sold his soul when he went to congress. It saddens me every time I think about it. He sold it again in the Governors mansion, this time he got caught taking free work on his cabin on Bantam Lake, and a few other things.
Sadly now he has gotten caught, convicted and will be doing time again. I hope they send him someplace nasty this time, not a camp in Pennsylvania with his fellow crooked Connecticut polititians.
Thanks. I try to forget and sometimes forgetting looks like a bad memory. Ha.
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