John Buonomo jailed for stealing coins from copiers

Penny for pol’s thoughts?

Photo by John Wilcox

For the chump change he was caught on camera tapping from copiers and the cash he stole from struggling taxpayers who voted him into his $110,220 job, John Buonomo, former Middlesex register of probate, was sentenced to 30 months behind bars – and could be sprung in half that time.

The latest face of public corruption in Massachusetts kept his eyes downcast and hands folded yesterday as Middlesex Superior Court Judge Bruce R. Henry sentenced him to the Billerica House of Correction for ripping off $102,792 in campaign donations, as well as buckets full of coins from public copy machines at the Middlesex Registry of Deeds.

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