HARTFORD, Conn. – Former Gov. John G. Rowland’s campaign corruption case was transferred Friday to a federal court judge who has recently handed down lengthy prison terms in campaign corruption cases.
“I realize this sentence is one of particular shock given your career, but the message is that the cost of corruption ought to be too high,” Judge Janet Bond Arterton told a former correction officer last year as she sentenced him to two years in prison in another case.
The charges in that case stemmed from a campaign finance conspiracy involving former House Speaker Chris Donovan’s unsuccessful 2012 congressional campaign in the 5th District.
Rowland has been accused of similar charges over allegations he devised an illegal campaign finance scheme to secretly work for another candidate in that race, Lisa Wilson-Foley. His case had been before Judge Ellen Bree Burns. But the 90-year-old judge filed a transfer order Friday, reassigning the case “in the interest of justice.”
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