William Rullo, who stole nearly $400,000 from the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania while he worked there as a procurement technician, will serve as an example to discourage others from violating the public trust, a federal judge said as he sentenced Rullo last Wednesday to 33 months in prison.
“I do it with a heavy heart,” U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said. He explained that he had to impose a heavy sentence because the theft, which spanned a decade, was so “highly corrosive” to the public’s trust in the court, an institution that serves justice.
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