Averting potential time in a federal prison, former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey chairman David Samson was sentenced Monday to one year of home confinement while wearing a tracking device for seeking a bribe from United Airlines.
U.S. District Judge Jose Linares also sentenced Samson to four years of probation and 3,600 hours of community service and ordered him to pay a $100,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to one count of bribery. The U.S. Attorney’s Office asked the judge to sentence Samson to two years in jail for his offense, arguing that a lesser penalty would send the wrong message to other public officials and would erode public confidence in government. Samson’s lawyers argued that the 77-year-old defendant should not be sent to jail because of his age and poor health. In his sentencing brief, he sought to continue the volunteer work he has performed in South Carolina for a Goodwill International vocational training program, and one of his doctors is quoted as saying that “if this patient is subjected to incarceration of any kind, it is likely to result in progressive worsening of his already bleak medical and psychiatric condition.”
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