as rotten as Martha
Former Conn. governor gets year in prison for corruption
By Matt Apuzzo and John Christoffersen, Associated Press | March 19, 2005
NEW HAVEN -- John G. Rowland, the charismatic former governor who once boldly predicted that a federal corruption investigation would never touch him, was sentenced yesterday to a year in prison.
''I am ashamed to be here today, and I accept full responsibility for my actions," Rowland told US District Judge Peter C. Dorsey.
Rowland, 47, pleaded guilty in December to a corruption charge, admitting that he had accepted more than $100,000 in chartered trips to Las Vegas, Vermont vacations, and repairs to his lakeside cottage. He resigned from office July 1 in the midst of an impeachment probe.
The three-term Republican governor told Dorsey that he had lost sight of his ethical judgment and developed a ''sense of entitlement and even arrogance."
''I let my pride get in my way," he said.
Dorsey sentenced Rowland to a year plus one day in prison, four months of home confinement, and three years of supervised release. He ordered Rowland to report to prison on April 1 at Fort Devens in Ayre, Mass.