Former Hospital Executive Gets Prison for Bribing State Legislators

David Rosen, the former head of New York City medical-care company MediSys, was sentenced Monday to three years in prison on for bribing New York lawmakers.  Rosen was convicted in a non-jury trial in September 2011 of bribing Assemblymen Tony Seminerio, William Boyland and Senator Carl Kruger.

In his allocution, Rosen asked Judge Jed Rakoff to take into account what he called his four decades of commitment to people who cannot “advocate for themselves.”  Rosen’s lawyers requested a sentence of probation.  The U.S. Attorney’s Office asked the judge to impose “a substantial” term “commensurate with the significance and gravity” of Mr. Rosen’s criminal conduct.

The three year sentence was much less than federal sentencing guidelines called for.

Read the U.S. Attorney’s statement on the matter here.

Senator Kruger resigned and pleaded guilty to corruption charges in December, and was recently sentenced to seven years in prison. Assemblyman Seminerio pleaded guilty to fraud in and died in prison in January 2011. Assemblyman Boyland was acquitted of bribe solicitation in a jury trial in November, but was later arrested on new bribery charges, and faces trial in Brooklyn.