Norman To Prison
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NEW YORK (AP) – Former state Assemblyman Clarence Norman Jr., convicted of grand larceny in a scheme to shake down a judicial candidate, was sentenced to two to six years in prison on Tuesday.
Norman, the longtime head of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, was led out of the court in handcuffs following his sentencing in Brooklyn.
Beforehand, a jovial Norman had told reporters, “The lord is with me. My family’s with me. I have my health.”
>[?A sentencing also was scheduled Tuesday in another Brooklyn corruption case.
Former state Supreme Court Justice Gerald Garson, 74, accepted expensive gifts including cash and cigars in exchange for helping fix divorce cases – crimes captured on hidden-camera videos made in his chambers.
Garson was convicted of receiving bribes and accepting rewards for official misconduct, but acquitted on four lesser counts.
