Ex-Queens Councilman Dan Halloran Released From Prison: Report

BAYSIDE, QUEENS — Former Northeast Queens City Council Member Dan Halloran, who was convicted in 2014 for his role in two bribery schemes, was released early from federal prison due to the coronavirus, according to a news report.

Halloran was freed from a New Jersey prison on June 3 as the Bureau of Prisons reduces its inmate population in an effort to combat the spread of the new coronavirus, the Queens Daily Eagle reported.

Halloran was found guilty of bribery and conspiracy for arranging a $110,000 bribe to Republican leaders to allow a Democratic state senator to run for mayor as a Republican, and for taking a $15,000 bribe to devote up to $80,000 of City Council funds to a consulting company he believed was controlled by the people who bribed him — all under the condition that Halloran would become first deputy mayor.

Now that he's out of prison, Halloran plans to go back to his early career as a CPR and SCUBA instructor, he told the Eagle.

“It’s a little surreal, everything out there is crazy,” he said. “I came home to a world that's not quite the way it was when I left it.”

Read the full story in the Queens Daily Eagle.