NEW YORK - A lobbyist was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to three months in prison for participating in a scheme to bribe New York State Senator Carl Kruger. Richard Lipsky, 65, of New York City, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery and one count of bribery in January 2012. After his guilty plea, Lipsky entered into a cooperation agreement with the government.  

Lipsky was a professional lobbyist and the principal of Richard Lipsky Associates, Inc., since approximately 1981. He was initially charged in March 2011, along with seven others, including Kruger, Turano, Solomon Kalish, the owner of Adex, David Rosen, the former CEO of MediSys Health Network, Robert Aquino, the former CEO of Parkway Hospital, real estate developer Aaron Malinsky, and New York State Assemblyman William Boyland, Jr.