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Harlan Gahner was charged with first-degree larceny, four counts of second-degree money laundering and 11 counts of fourth-degree money laundering.
Mr. Haggerty's company, Special Election Operations, was convicted of second-degree money laundering.
In Oct. 2011, Mr. Haggerty was convicted of second-degree grand larceny and second-degree money laundering.
Jurors, on their third day of deliberations, found the consultant, John F. Haggerty Jr., guilty of second-degree grand larceny and second-degree money laundering.
Mr. Haggerty was convicted of second-degree grand larceny and second-degree money laundering in October 2011 and sentenced two months later to 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison.
Of the five counts listed in the indictment — first-degree grand larceny, second-degree money laundering and three counts of falsifying business records — the first is the most serious and carries a maximum punishment of 25 years in prison.
The consultant, John F. Haggerty Jr., 42, was sentenced by Justice Ronald A. Zweibel of State Supreme Court in Manhattan to one and a third to four years in state prison, following his conviction on second-degree grand larceny and second-degree money laundering charges.
He was charged with one count each of first-degree grand larceny, first- and second-degree money laundering and fourth-degree conspiracy; four counts of third-degree criminal tax fraud; five counts of first-degree falsifying business records; and three first-degree counts of offering a false instrument for filing.
Updated, 12 40 p.m. | John F. Haggerty Jr., a Republican political consultant accused of stealing $1.1 million from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg during Mr. Bloomberg's 2009 re-election campaign, was found guilty of second-degree grand larceny and second-degree money laundering by a jury in Manhattan on Friday morning.
