Ex-New York Comptroller Hevesi Gets Up to 4 Years in Prison
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Former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who pleaded guilty in a pay-to-play scandal at the state pension fund he once ran, will go to prison for as many as four years.
Hevesi, 71, the highest-ranking official convicted in an investigation of corruption at the pension fund, was sentenced to a minimum of one year today by State Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus in Manhattan. Hevesi, a Democrat, resigned in 2006 after four years as comptroller.