New Jersey

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/former-new-jersey-attorney-general-and-chairman-port-authority-board-commissioners

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
District of New Jersey

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, March 6, 2017

Former New Jersey Attorney General And Chairman Of Port Authority Board Of Commissioners Sentenced To One Year Of Home Confinement For Bribery

Court Also Fines Him $100,000, Orders Four Years’ Probation

NEWARK, N.J. – David Samson, the former chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was sentenced today to 12 months of home confinement and four years of probation for using his official authority to pressure the parent company of United Airlines Inc. to institute a non-stop flight from Newark to South Carolina for his personal benefit, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, Inspector General Michael Nestor of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Office of Inspector General, and Special Agent in Charge Timothy Gallagher of the FBI’s Newark Division, announced.

Samson, 77, of Aiken, South Carolina, who served as New Jersey Attorney General from 2002 to 2003 and was the founding member and chairman of the law firm Wolff & Samson PC, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares in Newark federal court to an information charging him with one count of bribery. Judge Linares imposed the sentence today in Newark federal court.

“We believe that Mr. Samson’s crime, which involved a substantial violation of trust by a high-ranking public official, warranted a significant term of incarceration,” U.S. Attorney Fishman said. “Obviously we’re disappointed in the sentence, but we respect the court’s decision.”
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In addition to home confinement and probation, Judge Linares sentenced Samson to 3,600 hours of community service and fined him $100,000.

((Maybe it would cost so much to have him in a prison's medical ward that the judge told him to stay home?))