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Judge rejects Miron plea
Daniel Tepfer
Updated 10:40 pm, Wednesday, July 31, 2013
BRIDGEPORT — A judge Wednesday refused to cut the probation time for former Stratford political leader Richard Miron, convicted in 2010 of stealing thousands of dollars from elderly widows and dozens of other people who had paid him for headstones for loved ones.
“The sentence was the result of a hard-fought plea bargain and I am denying the motion at this time,” state Superior Court Judge Robert Devlin said in his ruling. Devlin said Miron could ask for a sentence reduction later, though.
“So many families went through so much heartbreak because of this man, and that never heals,” said Verna Kearney, who lost more than $3,500 to Miron for her late husband’s headstone. “I want him to serve every day of his sentence.”
Miron, the former owner of Lake-view Monument Co., is a former Stratford Democratic registrar of voters and the father of former Stratford Mayor James Miron. In 2010, he pleaded guilty to stealing $78,098.28 from 72 people who had contracted with him to purchase headstones, and was sentenced to a suspended 10-year term, followed by five years probation.
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