Walker also is out of prison

                                                                               

Robbie Walker

The news yesterday that Linda Mangano, wife of former Nassau County Republican County Executive Ed Mangano, had been released from prison to home confinement surprised some political pundits -- even though her transfer to the "residential reentry management field office" had been telegraphed in late January on the Federal of Bureau of Prisons website.

 

Didn't know that meant home confinement in Bethpage.

Her release date has since been changed to Aug. 12.

Linda Mangano had been convicted along with her husband on federal corruption charges involving Oyster Bay concessionaire Harendra Singh, a family friend.

Linda Mangano was accused of lying to the FBI about a $450,000 "low show" job she received from Singh and sentenced to 15 months in prison. She entered a minimum-security satellite camp at a Danbury prison complex in September, despite appeals for a stay.

But most political insiders knew before Thanksgiving that Mangano's chief Deputy Rob Walker was out of prison and back home in Hicksville on work release, despite his 18-month federal corruption conviction.

He reportedly has been working at a favorite Bethpage tavern/restaurant.

Walker pleaded guilty in 2019 to lying to the FBI about a $5,000 payment from a county vendor. His case had nothing to do with the Mangano corruption convictions.

Walker surrendered to the Fort Dix correction facility a year ago February.

It's not clear whether he continues under court supervision but it would make sense since he served only a fraction of his sentence.

But the Bureau of Prisons essentially washed their hands of him in January.

The only one of three Mangano-associated convictions still incarcerated is Ed Mangano, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking bribes and kickbacks from family friend Singh, in return for pressuring Oyster Bay Town officials to back some $20,000 in private loans to Singh.

Ed Mangano entered prison last September. Here is the Bureau of Prisons report on Mangano:

                                                                                  

The Manganos have maintained their innocence and are appealing their convictions.

Singh, meanwhile, has yet to be sentenced after pleading guilty in 2016 to eight felony counts for bribing Mangano and Oyster Bay Town officials. Newsday reports he is to be sentenced next week.

As of a year ago, Singh continued to live in his five bedroom, four bath Syosset mansion despite not paying his mortgage since 2014.

Singh was the star witness against the Manganos in two trials. The first resulted in a hung jury.

Federal Judge Joan Azrack, who handled the cases and sentenced the Manganos, wrote, " "I find Singh's testimony to be credible and reliable..."



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