Rowland Begins Prison Sentence Today.
Former three term Connecticut governor John G. Rowland reports to Otisville Federal Correctional Institution today, Daily Ructions has learned. Rowland was sentenced to 2 1/2 years after being convicted by a jury in 2014 of campaign finance violations arising out of his furtive paid relationship with Lisa Wilson Foley’s 2012 congressional campaign.
Rowland was sentenced to a year and a day in prison in 2005 for committing corrupt acts while he was governor. He resigned his office in 2004.