Attorney Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring With State Engineer to Steal Railway Project Funds

TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that a New York attorney was sentenced to state prison today after being convicted at trial in April of conspiring with a former engineer for the New Jersey Department of Transportation to solicit a railroad company to fraudulently inflate the cost of a state-funded railroad repair project and pay them $325,000 in bribes. The DOT engineer pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.