Ex-corrections official sentenced in bid rigging

CAMDEN, N.J. - June 20, 2010

Frederick J. Armstrong of Pemberton Borough received a three-year term Friday. The 60-year-old also forfeited his job as a construction management specialist and was barred from public employment.

Armstrong pleaded guilty in March to conspiring to commit official misconduct, theft by deception and other crimes. He admitted working with an alarm system contractor to steer at least nine contracts worth more than $230,000 to his companies.

The contractor, 59-year-old Paul Kerth of Collingswood, pleaded guilty in September 2009 to theft by deception. He faces a county jail term, a five-year ban on bidding for public contracts and paying $150,000 in restitution when he's sentenced July 1.

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