A former New York state assemblyman has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was caught in a sting operation accepting bribes from a carnival promoter and two undercover FBI agents posing as out-of-town real estate investors.
William Boyland Jr. was found guilty of extortion and multiple conspiracy counts at a federal trial in March 2014 in Brooklyn. He was sentenced Thursday.
His conviction is part of a string of Albany corruption cases, but his sentence is longer than others recently convicted.
Prosecutors built a case around the 45-year-old Democrat, who represented Brooklyn for over a decade, based on hours of audio and video recordings and the testimony of Boyland's former chief of staff, who pleaded guilty to bribery charges and testified for the government.
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