Judge Sentenced to 5 Years for Taking Bribes
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NEW YORK — A state judge convicted of taking cash bribes to fix criminal cases was sentenced Monday to five years in prison, five years’ probation and fined $209,000 by a federal judge who called him “casually corrupt and amiably dishonest.”
But State Supreme Court Justice William C. Brennan, 67, was spared the maximum 20-year term because of mitigating circumstances, including his age, the sentencing judge said. The Supreme Court in New York state is a trial-level court.
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