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NY Corrections Commissioner Pleads Guilty
Loaded on April 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1993, page 3
William Jenkins, a former assistant corrections commissioner pleaded guilty in January to charges that he extorted money from a janitorial supplies company which served the city's jails. Jenkins, who was responsible for the Corrections Department's assets management, is scheduled to be sentenced March 19, 1993. Prosecutors said Jenkins received $24,000 …
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