A New Haven federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Former Gov. John G. Rowland to 30 months in prison for trying to conceal his role in two congressional campaigns in 2010 and 2012.
Rowland will also be fined $35,000 — the same amount he was paid for his campaign services — and undergo three years of supervised release, Judge Janet Bond Arterton ruled.
Rowland, who must report to jail in June, plans to appeal, The Hartford Courant reported Wednesday.
The sentencing comes after Arterton denied Rowland’s motion on Monday for a new trial.
It would be Rowland’s second time in prison. In 2005, during his third term, he was sentenced to a year in prison for committing honest services fraud and tax fraud — relating to his acceptance of free services at his home from state contractors.
Prosecutors in the recent trial alleged that Rowland had conspired with U.S. House of Representatives candidate Lisa Wilson-Foley and her husband Brian Foley to conceal his involvement as a campaign consultant by having an attorney for Foley’s nursing home business pay him under the terms of a fictitious contract.
Prosecutors also alleged that Rowland approached U.S. House candidate Mark Greenberg in 2009, presenting a sham contract that stated Rowland would work for an entity owned by the candidate.
Wilson-Foley and Foley pleaded guilty nearly a year ago to conspiring to make illegal campaign contributions. Foley was sentenced in January to three months in a halfway house. Wilson-Foley has not yet been sentenced.
