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The disgraced former state senator and Westchester power broker was released from prison on Monday, the second time in as many months he has returned from federal lockup.
Spano, brother of Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, has been ordered to home confinement until May 22 after leaving the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He will then be placed on one year’s probation.
In February 2012, the disgraced senator pleaded guilty to charges of filing fraudulent tax returns. He admitted failing to report more than $50,000 in taxes he owed on commissions and rental income. He was expected to serve up to one year inside a minimum security satellite prison camp of the Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pa.
He was released in February, however, after serving less than eight months. But the freedom turned out to be short lived as Spano was sent back to a Brooklyn detention center just days later.
At the time, prison officials would not comment on why Spano was suddenly sent back to prison, but according to several reports, it may have resulted from an interview Spano gave to Journal News columnist Phil Reisman just hours after his release.
Inmates can be sent back to prison for a variety of reasons, a bureau of prisons spokesperson told the Journal News, and an interview may have been a violation of his release.
Spano served more than three decades in the state Senate, representing the 35th District, which covers Yonkers, Greenburgh and its villages, Mount Pleasant and Pleasantville.
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