David P. Rosen, Hospital Executive, Sentenced in Bribery Case A former hospital chief executive at the center of a bribery conspiracy that ensnared former State Senator Carl Kruger was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison by a federal judge in Manhattan. The former executive, David P. Rosen, 64, had been convicted of bribing Senator Kruger and two other legislators in return for having them use their influence in Albany to benefit his health care organization, MediSys, a nonprofit sponsor of hospitals and nursing homes in Brooklyn and Queens. The conspiracy, which also involved a lobbyist, another hospital executive and a health care consultant, has cast light on the pervasiveness of corruption in Albany and on the often cozy ties there between legislators and hospitals. Mr. Rosen had faced a sentence of roughly 15 to 19 years under the federal advisory sentencing guidelines, as calculated by the court's probation office, which had recommended a 10-year term. Prosecutors, in a memo to the judge, did not request a specific number of years, but sought "a substantial" prison term "commensurate with the significance and gravity of David Rosen's criminal conduct." Mr. Rosen's lawyers had asked that he be given probation and ordered to perform community service. At his own request, Mr. Rosen was tried before a judge rather than a jury. After a three-week trial last summer, the judge, Jed S. Rakoff of Federal District Court, found him guilty. The judge called his case "sad, even tragic," as it revealed "how a widely admired hospital administrator who diligently sought to better the health care of impoverished communities nonetheless chose to entangle himself in the bribing of state legislators." Prosecutors had charged that Mr. Rosen used sham consulting deals to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to two Democratic assemblymen, William F. Boyland Jr. from Brooklyn and Anthony S. Seminerio of Queens, and that he directed business to a hospice-care company from which Mr. Kruger, a Democrat from Brooklyn, received a cut. In return, Mr. Rosen called on the officials to act on behalf of his hospitals, including seeking state money for them. Mr. Kruger resigned and pleaded guilty to corruption charges in December; Judge Rakoff sentenced him last month to seven years in prison. Assemblyman Boyland was acquitted in a jury trial in November, although he was later arrested again, on new bribery charges, and faces trial in Brooklyn. Mr. Seminerio, who pleaded guilty to fraud in an earlier case, died in prison in January 2011. Another defendant in the case, the lobbyist, Richard J. Lipsky, is scheduled to be sentenced in September.