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Nicholas Spano gets 1 year for tax fraud

Nick Spano heads into Federal Court in White

Photo credit: Photo by Susan Stava | Nick Spano heads into Federal Court in White Plains. (June 18,2012

Former state Sen. Nicholas Spano was hiding "dirty money" he received under the table, a federal judge in White Plains said before sentencing the Republican power broker Monday to a year and a day in prison for tax evasion.

"It seems to me that the public is sick and tired of the powerful and fortunate not paying their fair share of taxes," U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel told a stoic Spano,...

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