LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that WILLIAM MASSO, a former New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) Officer, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for leading a group of active and retired NYPD Officers and others in a scheme involving the illegal interstate transportation of firearms and stolen goods.
MASSO, who was an NYPD Officer on active duty at the time he committed the offenses, pled guilty in February 2012 to one count of conspiracy to transport firearms interstate, one count of conspiracy to transport defaced firearms interstate, one count of conspiracy to sell a firearm to an out-of-state resident, and one count of conspiracy to transport and receive stolen goods interstate. He was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl.
