PARSIPPANY — More than six years after he was first charged, former Morris County Freeholder and Parsippany councilman John Cesaro was sentenced to three years probation and will not serve jail time in connection with a bribery scheme tied to a public contract sting operation.
Superior Court Judge Peter Tober rejected a request by the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability that sought a five-year state prison sentence. Instead, the judge imposed probation, ordered Cesaro to forfeit the $7,700 he accepted, and assessed a $23,000 fine.
Cesaro pleaded guilty in November to accepting bribes in exchange for steering public contracts to tax appeal attorney Matt O’Donnell. The charges stemmed from a December 2019 sting operation conducted by the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability…