By Shayna Jacobs
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — A crooked Correction officer who promised to spring a Rikers Island inmate early in exchange for $100,000 worth of cocaine was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday.
Robert Whitfield, 51, was convicted at trial of conspiracy, bribe receiving and other charges for agreeing to tinker with the inmate’s sentence in the Department of Correction computer system — agreeing to give the jailbird an earlier release date — in exchange for about 6.5 pounds of the drug.
Whitfield was busted April 5, 2011 after his intermediary met with an undercover cop that he believed was meeting a cousin of the inmate’s to accept the narcotics that would serve as a bribe, part of a corrupt deal that was reached in a staff kitchen at the notorious jail complex.
Full story: Rikers guard who agreed to free inmate for $100,000 worth of cocaine is sentenced to eight years behind bars