The sentencing of former Assemblyman Robert Schroeder was rescheduled for a fourth time on Jan. 17, 2017.
SOMERVILLE - The sentencing of former Assemblyman Robert Schroeder, who pleaded guilty to charges he stole nearly $1.9 million from people who loaned him money and wrote more than $3.4 million in bad checks to other creditors, was rescheduled for a third time on Tuesday.
The new sentencing date is Feb. 6.
Schroeder was originally going to be sentenced on Dec. 22, 2016. That date was rescheduled to Jan. 13. On that date, Somerset County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Reed spent nearly the entire day in a resentencing hearing for former "Melrose Place" actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer and Schroeder hearing was moved to Tuesday.
During Tuesday's hearing attorneys for both sides held three meetings in Reed's chambers that ended with Reed announcing that additional information had been submitted to the court on behalf of Schroeder, and both the court and Attorney General's Office needed time to review it.
Neither defense attorney John Whipple nor Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Manis would reveal what the new information was.
Peter Aseltine, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, said the documents are sealed.
Under a plea agreement, the state has recommended that Schroeder, a Republican, be sentenced to eight years in state prison. He will be required to pay back the more than $5.3 million he stole from his victims and be barred from holding public office or public employment in New Jersey.
Nearly a half dozen victims of Schroeder's scheme attended the hearing and two gave victim's impact statements.
Schroeder served two terms in the Assembly from 2010 to 2014, representing the 39th district that includes parts of Bergen and Passaic counties.
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