NEW YORK—A powerful New York jail union boss-turned-prison inmate is poised to go free less than halfway through his sentence in a corruption case, after a judge decided this week that the nearly five-year term should be reduced.
Norman Seabrook originally was sentenced to 58 months in prison on his federal conviction for taking bribes to put $20 million in union pension money into a risky hedge fund. The union lost $19 million.
But U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said Seabrook’s sentence is now unfair—because a co-defendant appealed and got his own prison term reduced to just over a year….