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Crooked Ex-Governor Sent Back to Prison

CAN’T LEARN

Tried to be secret campaign consultant.

The former governor of Connecticut is so dirty that he’s been sent to prison for the second time in a decade. John Rowland was sentenced to 30 months in prison Wednesday after being convicted of conspiracy to break federal campaign-finance laws by trying to conceal his role as a paid consultant to a congressional candidate in 2012. Rowland, a Republican, previously spent a year in prison after he was convicted in 2005 of taking $107,000 in gifts and services from businessmen who won contracts and tax breaks from his administration.

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