Santo "Sandy" Petrocelli Sr., a Queens electrical contractor who did business with the city, received just three months in prison for bribing labor boss and former Democratic assemblyman Brian McLaughlin as reported by Alison Gendar for the Daily News:
After apologizing to his family and the court, Petrocelli told the judge that if he hadn't paid off McLaughlin, the crooked labor leader would have put him out of business by drumming up labor unrest. "I would have had no business," Petrocelli told the court. "That's not an excuse for not following the law," the judge said.
McLaughlin was sentenced last May to ten years in prison as previously reported by Thomas Zambito for the Daily News.
