NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A businessman convicted of bribing two New Orleans city officials for millions of dollars in City Hall contract work has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison.
U.S District Judge Eldon Fallon on Thursday ordered 48-year-old Mark St. Pierre, of Belle Chasse, to report to prison by Oct. 14 and begin serving his sentence.
Fallon also ordered St. Pierre to pay a $50,000 fine on top of more than $3.2 million he was already ordered to forfeit.
St. Pierre was convicted in May of bribing former city technology chiefs Greg Meffert and Anthony Jones.
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Nation & World: Belle Chasse man receives 17-year prison sentence in bribery case
September 1, 2011