A former water department commissioner in Mount Vernon, Westchester County, has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for bribery.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has announced that former commissioner of the Board of Water Supply of the City of Mount Vernon Anthony Bove was sentenced to 15 months in prison for soliciting a $10,000 bribe from an employee of the water department and lying to federal law enforcement officers when interviewed during the investigation. Bove solicited the bribe in exchange for approving the employee’s promotion. Bove, a North Salem, resident, pleaded guilty in March.