Developer Robert Scinto will learn today whether he will spend time in prison for lying to FBI agents conducting a probe into corruption allegations in Shelton.
Scinto’s sentencing hearing is scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. in federal court in New Haven.
Judge Charles S. Haight is presiding.
Scinto, 63, pleaded guilty Oct. 21 to lying about gifts he gave to Shelton employees and officials between 1999 and 2008.
Those gifts, some of which federal prosecutors said were made to Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti, included:
- A week in Scinto’s Aspen, Colorado vacation home in 2003.
- Cash payments to building inspector Elliot Wilson as certificate of occupancies were granted for Scinto development projects
- Christmas gifts, in cash, to various Shelton city employees
Scinto’s lawyer has asked the court to give him probation. Scinto has offered to pay for the development of an ethics program. He’s also offered to lecture trade and civic groups about why it is wrong to give gifts to city officials you’re doing business with.
The government wants Scinto to go to jail, arguing that wiretaps and evidence prove that he knew what he was doing was illegal.
