The New York Sun
September 29, 2004
Velella Released from Jail
By Associated Press
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former Republican state senator, Guy Velella, who was sentenced in June to
a year in jail on a charge related to accepting bribes, was released yesterday
after serving a little more than three months.
Velella, who turned 60 on Saturday, left the Rikers Island jail around 2:40 p.m. after being approved for conditional release.
He was jailed on June 21 after admitting he helped bribe payers win public works contracts.
The former senator was taken from the jail to the visitors' center, where
he boarded a bus to ride across the bridge from the island to a parking lot
in Queens, a Department of Correctional Services official said.
Velella's lawyer, Charles Stillman, refused to comment on his client.
Velella, his father, and two other men were charged in May 2002 in a 25-count
indictment that alleged he accepted at least $137,000 in bribes from contractors
from 1995 through June 2000.
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