Former Maryland State Sen. Thomas Bromwell Sr. was sentenced Friday to seven years in federal prison for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure state contracts for a Baltimore construction company.

Bromwell, 58, a former pub owner and once among the General Assembly?s most powerful Democrats, pleaded guilty in July to racketeering conspiracy and filing a false tax return.

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