Rowland Sentenced to Prison Again

Former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland (R) “stood again Wednesday in front of a packed courtroom and for the second time in 10 years, was sentenced to prison for low-rent political crimes, this time for 30 months,” the Hartford Courant reports.

“Rowland turned down an opportunity to speak. He is planning to appeal and insists that he is innocent. But his defense lawyer Reid Weingarten complained at length that Rowland was over charged and selectively prosecuted by federal authorities who are convinced he escaped too easily from his first conviction for corruption in 2004, when he served about ten months in prison.”