Coronavirus-stricken former state Senate leader Dean Skelos will be released from prison into home custody after all, federal prosecutors revealed in a filing over the weekend.
“Representatives of the Bureau of Prisons have informed the government that Dean Skelos has been approved for home confinement and will be released on or before April 30, 2020,” Assistant US Attorney Audrey Strauss wrote in a letter to Judge Kimba Wood.
The filing comes less than a week after federal prosecutors reported to the court that the BOP was “unlikely” to spring Skelos from the Otisville minimum-security prison in Orange County — after initially planning to release him into home confinement due to the pandemic.
Skelos tested positive for COVID-19 on April 8 and was quarantined, according to court filings.
The corrupt pol was once the Empire State’s most powerful Republican. He was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison in 2018 for strong-arming companies into providing do-nothing jobs and consulting gigs for his son, Adam.