An attorney for the state told a judicial panel yesterday that former Tyco chief Dennis Kozlowski should be kept in the clink because letting him out would “undermine respect for the law.”
“Dennis Kozlowski stole $100 million,” the state’s lawyer, Mark Shawhan, argued in the Appellate Division, in an attempt to reverse a lower-court judge’s decision to give the exec a second parole hearing.
Kozlowski attorney Alan Lewis countered that his client should get time off for good behavior in prison, where he’s served more than seven years of an eight- to 25-year sentence for fleecing his company.
A second, regularly scheduled parole hearing in September could come before the appellate court issues a decision, expected by the fall.