Former Correction Officers Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook was sentenced Feb. 8 to 58 months in Federal prison for accepting a $60,000 bribe in return for investing $20 million in union money in a hedge fund that eventually went bankrupt, with the Judge describing him as “a force for good” who had committed “the sin of hubris.”
The man who had led his union for 21 years, among other things winning correction officers who retired with at least 20 years on the job a $12,000-a-year Variable Supplements Fund payment, did not admit guilt and told U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, “I never betrayed my members, Judge. Never.”
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