by Bob Walsh
Armando Moronta, 40, was formerly a correctional officer at the Federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. He was charged with accepting bribes, smuggling drugs and sexual abuse of prisoners.
Moronta had originally made a decent deal, but then it turns out he was named as a defendant in a wrongful death suit. A prisoner, Michael Garrett, died in 2016 from smoking a batch of drugs Moronta had smuggled in. That kind of twisted the judges panties a bit.
The prosecutors were asking for five years. Moronta got ten. Plus he forfeited all the bribe money, about $15k. And he has to register as a sex offender when he gets out.
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