TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey’s attorney general says a campaign worker has been sentenced to three years in prison for election fraud.
Angel Colon was sentenced Thursday by a state Superior Court judge in Trenton.
The 51 year-old Newark resident pleaded guilty in 2011 to election fraud after admitting he submitted fraudulent absentee ballots in a 2007 state senate race.
Colon initially was sentenced in January 2012 to five years of probation, over the state’s objection.
The state superior court’s appellate division ruled that Colon must be sentenced to jail time.
Prosecutors say Colon helped collect ballots on behalf of Teresa Ruiz, who won the 2007 election and still serves in the senate. Authorities have said Ruiz and her staff cooperated fully in the investigation.
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