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Key Player in Former Gov. Rowland Conspiracy Case Sentenced to Probation

Connecticut Public Radio | By The Associated Press
Published January 9, 2015 at 3:01 PM EST
Jeff Cohen
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WNPR

A Connecticut businessman who admitted conspiring to hide payments from his wife's congressional campaign to former Connecticut Governor John Rowland has been sentenced to three years' probation, including three months in a halfway house. 

Brian Foley and his wife, Republican Lisa Wilson-Foley, pleaded guilty last March to conspiring with Rowland to hide his work on Wilson-Foley's 2012 campaign for the Republican nomination in Connecticut's Fifth District, where Rowland served for three terms in the 1980s.

Foley provided key testimony that helped convict Rowland of seven federal counts in September.

Foley said he hid $35,000 in campaign payments in a contract for Rowland to consult with Foley's nursing home company. Judge Janet Bond Arterton gave Foley credit for his cooperation, but said there needed to be consequences.
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