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Powerful Politician Sentenced To Prison, Plans To Keep Fighting

By Karen DeWitt

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Albany, NY – Former State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno was sentenced to two years in prison by a federal judge Thursday, May 5 but Bruno won't have to begin serving his term until after the US Supreme Court rules whether the law he was sentenced under is actually valid.

WRVO's capitol correspondent Karen DeWitt reports.