CAMDEN—A former corrections officer with
the Federal Bureau of Prisons today admitted accepting $3,600 in bribes in
exchange for smuggling contraband in and out of the Federal Correctional
Institution in Fairton, New Jersey.
Job Brown, 39, of Bridgeton, New Jersey,
pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb to an information
charging him with one count of receipt of bribes by a public official.
According to documents filed in this
case and statements made in court:
Brown, a federal correctional officer at
FCI-Fairton, was responsible for supervising inmates while enforcing the rules
governing the operation of the facility. Between January 2012 and March 14,
2012, he accepted two separate cash payments—$1,100 and $2,500—in exchange for
using his position to smuggle tobacco and vitamin supplements to a prisoner
inside the facility. Brown also smuggled approximately 900 U.S. postage stamps
out of the facility for the same inmate’s benefit. Tobacco is prohibited at
FCI-Fairton, and inmates are also not allowed to possess more than 60 United
States postage stamps, or vitamin supplements, which are not purchased through
the prison commissary.
The bribery count to which Brown pleaded
guilty is punishable by a maximum potential penalty of 15 years in prison and a
fine of $250,000. Brown could also be permanently disqualified from holding any
office of honor, trust, or profit in the United States. Sentencing is scheduled
for September 18, 2012.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special
agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael B.
Ward, in Newark; and special agents of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office
of the Inspector General, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge James
E. Tomlinson, in New York, with the investigation leading to today’s guilty
plea.
The government is represented by
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew J. Skahill of the U.S. Attorney’s Office
Special Prosecutions Division in Camden.
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2 comments:
You put us all at risk. Its a shame that the people that are going to pay the most for your crime is your children. Damn shame Brown,all for a few thousand bucks -head shake-
What is wrong with you Job?? Who does that?? Lives changed over a few thousand-What??? If some of my family members were still alive they would be so disappointed in you.
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