Finally, Singh is in prison
Eight years after Harendra Singh pleaded guilty to bribing Nassau County and Oyster Bay Town officials in exchange for $20 million in personal loan guarantees, the former Oyster Bay restaurateur has been incarcerated. Singh reported to federal prison in Otisville, NY on Friday. He originally was supposed to begin serving his four-year sentence last January but received several unexplained extensions. Otisville, according to the Chicago Tribune, has tennis courts, horseshoes, cardio equipment "and it sounds like the closest thing the federal prison system has to sleepaway camp." Singh pleaded guilty to bribing town officials and Republican County Executive Edward Mangano from 2010 through 2015 with free meals, vacations, luxury items and a $450,000 "low show" job for Mangano's wife Linda in return for town backing of his personal loans. Three different courts have found the loan