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TRENTON
– Attorney General Anne Milgram announced
that a former Morris County sheriff’s
officer was sentenced to state prison today
for demanding $60,000 from an inmate in the
county jail in return for giving him special
treatment.
Lee
C. Maimone, 43, of Mount Olive, was sentenced
to five years in state prison by Superior
Court Judge John B. Dangler in Morris County,
according to Division of Criminal Justice
Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni.
Maimone
pleaded guilty on Aug. 14 to theft by extortion.
At the time of the guilty plea, Maimone was
ordered to forfeit his job as a sheriff’s
officer. He is permanently barred from public
employment in New Jersey.
In
pleading guilty, Maimone admitted that he
demanded that an inmate in the Morris County
Jail pay him $60,000 in return for favorable
treatment. Maimone admitted that he offered
to provide favorable testimony or information
about the inmate in disciplinary matters in
the jail if he was paid, but threatened to
withhold such information if he did not receive
the money. Maimone admitted that he accepted
$2,000 as partial payment of the money from
an undercover New Jersey State Police detective
posing as the inmate’s girlfriend.
Deputy
Attorneys General Mark Eliades, chief of the
Gangs & Organized Crime Bureau, and Jeffrey
Manis represented the Division of Criminal
Justice at the sentencing. Maimone was charged
as a result of an investigation by the New
Jersey State Police Official Corruption Unit,
the Division of Criminal Justice and the Morris
County Prosecutor’s Office. The Morris
County Sheriff’s Office assisted in
the investigation.
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