Former Gov. John Rowland released from federal custody
John G. Rowland is a free man again after serving his second prison sentence.
The disgraced former governor — once a young, rising star among Connecticut Republicans — was was released from federal custody on Friday, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. Federal prison officials had said earlier that Sunday was Rowland’s anticipated release date. He had been staying at a halfway house in his hometown of Waterbury since being discharged from a federal prison camp in January.
Rowland, who turned 61 the day before his release, was convicted in 2014 of election fraud and obstruction of justice for hiding his political consulting roles in two campaigns. He began serving a 30-month sentence in fall 2016, at a minimum security prison camp in Pennsylvania.
It was his second stay in federal prison. Rowland’s 2004 federal corruption conviction also led to his incarceration, and to the state’s landmark public campaign financing program.
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