A former professor at Tidewater Community College was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to hiring hit men to bump off a colleague who had filed a sexual-harassment complaint against him.
According to court testimony, Jay A. Glosser, an associate professor of information-systems technology at the college in Norfolk, Va., offered two men $3,000 to $4,000 to persuade Kimberly A. Perez, an associate professor in the same department, to withdraw her complaint, or, alternatively, $10,000 to “take her out,” The Virginian-Pilot reported.
The scheme quickly unraveled in a taped police sting in June 2006.
Mr. Glosser pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit murder for hire, solicitation, and conspiracy to commit extortion. Two co-conspirators received lesser sentences earlier this year. —Paula Wasley
