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11 New Brunswick city residents have also been charged with paying cash to have their water and sewer bills reduced. (Shutterstock)
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ A former meter reader for the New Brunswick Water Department was sentenced Thursday, Jan. 21 to five years in state prison for participating in a scheme with two other former water department employees to reduce the water and sewer bills of numerous customers in return for bribes, said New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.
Guillermo Quinones, 51, of Somerset, was sentenced to five years in state prison by Superior Court Judge Robert Kirsch in Union County.
He pleaded guilty on Feb. 14, 2020 to official misconduct. Quinones forfeited his job with the water department and is permanently barred from public employment in New Jersey.