FORMER NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATOR ROGER CORBIN SENTENCED TO 18 MONTHS FOLLOWING CONVICTIONS FOR FILING FALSE TAX RETURNS, TAX EVASION, AND MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS
Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Roger Corbin, a former Nassau County Legislator who represented the Second Legislative District from 1995 until December 31, 2009, was sentenced to 18 months of incarceration by United States District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein. Corbin pleaded guilty earlier this year to all seven counts of a superseding indictment, which charged him with tax evasion and filing false federal tax returns for the years 2005, 2006, and 2007, and making false statements to Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service. Judge Feuerstein also imposed 3 years of supervised release, a $700 special assessment and ordered Corbin to pay $92,170 in restitution. Corbin’s sentence was announced by Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, George C. Venizelos, Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office, and Charles R. Pine...