Former N.J. Senator Is Convicted of Corruption

Wayne R. Bryant, once head of the New Jersey State Senate's appropriations committee, was found guilty last week in a federal corruption trial relating to his work for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

A jury convicted him of steering $10.5-million in state grants to the university's School of Osteopathic Medicine; of soliciting a $35,000-a-year job at the school; and of mail and wire fraud. The jury also convicted the osteopathy school's former dean, R. Michael

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