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 guarantees, which were never approved by the town board, to be illegal and unenforceable.

Singh, a longtime family friend of the Mangano's, was a key witness against the couple. After a jury in 2018 could not reach a decision, a 2019 federal jury found Ed Mangano guilty of pressuring town officials to approve the loan guarantees. Ed Mangano last year began serving a 12-year sentence while Linda Mangano, convicted for lying about the bribery scheme, served five months of a 15-month sentence.

Both Mangano's have appealed their convictions, with arguments heard by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals last February. The Court has yet to issue a decision.

From the Bureau of Prison's website:  


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