Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. — A former top official at a northern New Jersey jail who was convicted of illegal wiretapping is now headed to prison.
Kirk Eady recently received a 21-month sentence, federal prosecutors said. The 47-year-old East Brunswick resident will also have to serve three years of supervised release once he’s freed from prison, according to prosecutors.
Eady, a former deputy director of the Hudson County jail, was convicted in March.
Prosecutors have said that on more than 10 occasions during a five-month period in 2012, Eady used a publicly available website to intercept calls made by some colleagues who were critical of his work, as well as calls by another individual. The website allowed him to conceal the telephone numbers from where the calls originated and also call and record two people simultaneously.
The site also made it appear that those people, and not Eady, originated the call.
Eady recorded these telephone conversations and did not tell the other employees that he was recording them, and those people did not consent to having their private conversations monitored and recorded by Eady, prosecutors have said.
A friend of Eady’s testified during the trial that he told her he was recording personal calls of people representing corrections officers at the jail.