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Jail Official Convicted of Illegally Recording Phone Conversations Loses Appeal
Loaded on Jan. 10, 2017
by Christopher Zoukis
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2017, page 34
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Jail Misconduct,
Telephone Monitoring,
Guard Unions.
Location:
New Jersey.
A former high-ranking official at a New Jersey county jail, convicted on federal charges for illegally listening to and recording the private phone conversations of jail union leaders, has lost his appeal and will remain in federal prison.
Kirk Eady, 46, of East Brunswick, New Jersey, was convicted in March ...
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