John G. Rowland

John G. Rowland served as the 87th Governor of Connecticut from 1995 to 2004, when he resigned amid a separate corruption scandal for which he was convicted and served ten months in prison. In 2014 he was convicted a second time on seven federal counts including conspiracy to defraud the United States, falsification of records, and illegal campaign contributions. The scheme involved Rowland secretly working as a political consultant on two Republican congressional campaigns while concealing his involvement and payments to evade federal election law. In the primary instance, Rowland was paid $35,000 to work on the 2012 campaign of congressional candidate Lisa Wilson-Foley; her husband Brian Foley testified that he hired Rowland through his nursing home company as a sham consultant to keep Rowland's campaign role off the books. Rowland had attempted a similar arrangement in 2010 with another candidate, Mark Greenberg, seeking payments of up to $35,000 a month disguised through Greenberg's animal rescue business. His sentencing came exactly ten years to the day after he was first imprisoned for his earlier corruption conviction as governor.