https://www.timesunion.com/news/arti...o-16157575.phpALBANY — The husband of state Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie's chief of staff was sentenced Thursday to 76 months in prison and ordered to pay $136,000 to the Internal Revenue Service for his earlier guilty plea to cocaine trafficking and tax evasion charges.
Orlando Dennis, 32, who was born in Jamaica and moved to the United States in 2008, had been described by federal prosecutors as a $25,000-a-year bakery delivery driver who had been living a lavish lifestyle from drug trafficking.
Jevonni Brooks-Dennis, Heastie's chief of staff, who married Dennis in 2017, wrote a letter to the federal judge in her husband's case seeking leniency and describing him as "a loving husband, father, brother, and a friend to many." (cough)
NY State Assembly Ebonics Speaker Carl E. Heastie