Brooklyn judge grants lenient sentence for former Queens assemblyman
Former Queens County Assemblyman Jimmy Meng has been sentenced to one month in prison and ordered to pay a $30,000 fine by Brooklyn Federal Judge Allyne R. Ross.
“[Meng] took an honorable office and tried to besmirch it,” said Todd D. Kaminsky, an assistant United States attorney in Brooklyn. Kaminsky urged the Ross send Meng to prison for the 12 to 18 months.
In November 2012, Meng plead guilty to wire fraud for soliciting $80,000 in cash from a state court defendant and falsely claiming that he would use the money to bribe prosecutors in the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan to obtain a reduced sentence for the defendant.