Appeals Court upholds conviction of corrupt former Brooklyn pol William Boyland
A former Brooklyn politician who is serving a 14-year sentence for corruption won’t be getting out of jail early after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found no basis for reversal on the decision that got him locked up.
William Boyland Jr., a former Democratic assemblymember who represented Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and Bushwick, was convicted in March 2014 on 21 counts of public corruption-related offenses.
He was sentenced to 168 months imprisonment followed by a three-year term of supervised release and was ordered to pay $155,610.14 in restitution after a jury trial in front of Judge Sandra L. Townes in the Eastern District of New York.