NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York state assemblyman from the Bronx won’t serve any time in prison for making false statements because he “helped clean house” in state politics by cooperating in a lengthy corruption probe that resulted in the conviction of another state assemblyman and five others, a judge told him Thursday.

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