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 SUFFOLK COUNTY---A Suffolk County jury has convicted former county legislator Wayne Prospect of bribe receiving and conspiracy, and found him not guilty of coercion and bribery charges, in a verdict returned at Friday morning in Suffolk County court in Riverhead.
State Supreme Court Justice Robert W. Doyle continued the defendant's bail and ordered him to return for sentencing on Monday, July 24, three days after the defendant's 56th birthday.
The conviction on bribe receiving in the second degree, a class C felony and the top count in the four count indictment handed up in 2004, carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 years in prison. When added to the maximum possible sentence for conspiracy, the former lawmaker faces up to 19 years in prison.
Prospect, of 40 Seward Drive in Dix Hills, and his codefendant, Stephen Baranello of Medford, were arrested by district attorney detectives on April 22, 2004. Baranello pleaded guilty two weeks later to bribe receiving and conspiracy, the identical charges the jury convicted Prospect of Friday.
Baranello will be sentenced June 14 to a prison term of three to nine years, according to the district attorney's office. 5-26-06
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