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Ex-Newark cop is final person sentenced in watershed scheme, one of city’s ‘biggest and widest-ranging scandals’ Updated Jan 07, 2021; Nearly a decade after details began trickling out highlighting widespread, multi-million dollar corruption at the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation, the final defendant in the conspiracy was sentenced to federal prison Thursday. Janell Robinson, a former Newark police officer, was sentenced to nine years after being found guilty last year on charges of conspiracy to defraud the watershed corporation, two counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit extortion affecting interstate commerce. U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton also sentenced Robinson to three years supervised release and ordered her to pay restitution of $288,950 to the watershed corporation.