to avoid federal cash-transaction reports – and used the cashier's checks and money orders for personal expenses. Scannapieco admitted that between tax years 1998 and 2002, he failed to pay more than $80,000 in additional taxes. Rape In August 2015, he pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse. His victim, a relative, was six years old at the start of the abuse, which lasted two years. Scannapieco sexually abused the girl over a three-year period while awaiting sentencing in federal court after pleading guilty to the tax and bribery charges in 2005. Arrested in August 2014 and charged with sexually abusing the girl, he pleaded guilty in May to continuous sexual abuse of a child, rape, and unlawful sexual contact. The judge sentenced Scannapieco to 58 years total on sexual abuse charges—a mandatory 25 years behind bars and then 33 years' probation. References Living people American people of Italian descent American people convicted of tax crimes American people convicted of child sexual abuse Mayors of places in New Jersey People from Middletown, Delaware 1944 births New Jersey Republicans New Jersey politicians convicted of crimes