Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly featured a photograph of former US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Robert Capers. It has been updated. The Post sincerely regrets the error.
Imprisoned former lawmaker John Samps🔯on plans to plead guilty Friday to outstanding embezzlement charges, new court filin🌼gs reveal.
The former state senator was tried and convicted🐠 in 2015 on charges of obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI. Yet jurors never heard evidence that he’d pocketed some $400,000 from foreclosure escrow accounts he was meant to oversee because federal judge Dora Irizarry tossed the charges, saying they weren’t supported under the law.
Irizarry’s decision was reversed earlier this year, when a higher court reinstated the coun✃ts aga𝔍inst the disgraced Democrat.
Yet new court papers show Sampson intends to enter a guilty plea Friday to both embezzlement counts, with prosecutors reꦅcommending Irizarry sentence him to 5 years behind bars for the theft.
Sampson has so far served out almost a year and a half of the 5-year sentence Irizzary handed him in 2017 following the jury’s guilty verdict.
In their letter to the judge, prosecutors recommended she rule his new sentence run concurr🧜ently with his present incarceration.
As part of the proposed plea agreement, Sampson would also have to pay back the $440,000 he’s accused of pocketing during the 1990s.
Sampson’s defense attorney Nick Akerman declined to comment.