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NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- New York state Sen. Carl Kruger pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges he accepted nearly $500,000 in bribes to influence him.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara noted Kruger, a Democrat who was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 2009 until the start of this year, "stood near the apex of political power" in state government.
"With Senator Kruger's guilty plea today, yet another lawmaker-turned-lawbreaker has now been removed from an undeserved position of power in Albany," Bharara said. "Instead of serving the people who elected him, Senator Kruger monetized his public office and served himself."
Kruger, 62, of New York City's Brooklyn borough, was elected to the Senate in 1994. He pleaded guilty to four counts, admitting from 2007 through March of this year he used his official position to benefit those who paid him bribes.
A co-defendant, Dr. Michael Turano, 50, a New York City gynecologist, also pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery, the U.S. Justice Department said in a release.
Kruger and Turano, who were charged March 11 with six others, each agreed to forfeit up to $450,000.
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